misc/77891: xterm no longer honors the -display command line
argument
Tim Daneliuk
tundra at tundrware.com
Mon Feb 21 23:20:26 GMT 2005
>Number: 77891
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: xterm no longer honors the -display command line argument
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Feb 21 23:20:25 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Tim Daneliuk
>Release: 4.11-stable
>Organization:
TundraWare Inc.
>Environment:
FreeBSD eskimo.tundraware.com 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #11: Mon Feb 7 03:48:42 CST 2005 toor at eskimo.tundraware.com:/usr/obj/usr1/src/sys/ESKIMO i386
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>Description:
xterm refuses to honor the command line "-display" argument.
This is a very handy feature when kicking off xterms via
scripts and ssh connections and need to be fixed (please;).
>How-To-Repeat:
unset DISPLAY
xterm -display somedisplay:0
This yields a "DISPLAY not set error"
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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