alan@APPLE.COM (Alan Mimms) (04/18/89)
When I run my window manager, I'd LIKE to be able to do something like "MyFavoriteWindowManager -display host:0.0 &" -- but the window manager's client-spawning capabilities are then hampered by the fact that I didn't put the display name in the DISPLAY environment variable -- so clients don't automagically get the display set up for them for free. If I do, instead, "setenv DISPLAY host:0.0; MyFavoriteWindowManager &", I get the right behavior, but it's more complicated if I want to do the command via "rsh" or some such. A (In My Humble Option) very good solution to this would be for window managers to ALWAYS clone their display string into an environment variable which, of course, they pass on to child processes. That way specifying the display to a window manager using either technique would work just the same for every case. Wouldn't it be SIMPLE? (uwm, twm, awm, etc...) Alan Mimms My opinions are generally Communications Product Development Group pretty worthless, but Apple Computer they *are* my own... "The company has new jobs and Jobs has a new company" -- Harry Anderson