# To subscribers of the xforms list from "T.C. Zhao" <tc_zhao@yahoo.com> :
--- Lars Gullik Bjønnes <larsbj@lyx.org> wrote:
> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes@inria.fr> writes:
> | >>>>> "T" == T C Zhao <tc_zhao@yahoo.com> writes:
> |
> | TC> I don't think XDisplayName(0) would work
> | TC> because it only looks at the environment variables.
> | TC> DisplayName(fl_get_display()) should do the trick.
> |
> | The problem is that XDisplayName takes a string as parameter, not a
> | Display*.
> |
> | Hmm, I just noticed that you may be referring to DisplayString().
> Is
> | that what you had in mind?
Yes, DisplayString() was what I had in mind. Sorry about the typo.
>
> I still think that xforms should set DISPLAY when --display is used.
>
Well, DisplayString(display) will return whatever string was used
to open the display with, be it from environment or -display
specification. Setting the environment by xforms prevents any child
process from using the original environment setting.
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