dinah@WILKINS.BCM.TMC.EDU (Dinah McNutt Anderson) (09/13/90)
I had a user complaining because DISPLAY was always getting set to unix:0.0 on his SPARCstation regardless of what he did in his .login file. Some poking around turned up that xinit was setting the DISPLAY to unix:0.0 when UNIXCONN was defined. This is one of the default values for ConnectionFlags in Project.tmpl which is referenced in xinit's Imakefile. I have several questions. 1) What else is UNIXCONN used for? I looked in the doc directory and could not find it referenced anywhere. 2) Why is this the default? 3) What are the consequences of undefining it? I figure the only workstations you wouldn't want DISPLAY set to the hostname would be X-terminals and we don't run xinit on them anyway. Thanks, Dinah Anderson
klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee) (09/13/90)
In article <9009121845.AA06252@NICOLLE.IAIMS.BCM.TMC.EDU>, dinah@WILKINS.BCM.TMC.EDU (Dinah McNutt Anderson) writes: |> 1) What else is UNIXCONN used for? Among other things, Xlib uses UNIXCONN to determine whether or not to support UNIX-domain sockets. |> 2) Why is this the default? UNIX-domain sockets are usually the most efficient type of connection so you want to support and use them when you can. |> 3) What are the consequences of undefining it? Xlib will not be able create UNIX-domain socket connections to the X server. -- Ken Lee DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif. Internet: klee@wsl.dec.com uucp: uunet!decwrl!klee