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in thread How to detect X?

My point isn't that other applications would set or use DISPLAY. It just means that DISPLAY could be set (from someone's profile) even if X isn't running.

Just like that PERL5LIB is set if I run a Python program. Nothing but Perl is using PERL5LIB as far as I know, but that doesn't imply that if PERL5LIB is set, I'm running perl.

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Re^5: How to detect X?
by jdporter (Paladin) on Feb 22, 2005 at 16:42 UTC
    How DISPLAY is used and how PERL5LIB is used are not at all analogous.
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