Xstartup handle DISPLAY=(null) correctly
Adam Jackson
ajax at nwnk.net
Mon Nov 20 20:27:50 UTC 2017
On Mon, 2017-11-20 at 13:36 +0000, Emil Velikov wrote:
> On 20 November 2017 at 09:22, walter harms <wharms at bfs.de> wrote:
> > at what circumstances can DISPLAY == '(null)' ?
> >
> > looks more like a bug in an Xserver.
> >
>
> The commit message should explain where/how such string originates and
> why the current solutions is preferred.
> Say bug is in A/B/other and fixing it in FOO allows all the buggy
> instances to be handled consistently.
The patch content itself is not going to be accepted, though. If
$DISPLAY is ever "(null)" then the _caller_ has done something
incorrectly, because that's not a valid display string. Working around
that in the xdm startup script does not fix the bug.
- ajax
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