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X11 capturing DISPLAY value
- From: wynfield at gmail dot com
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
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- Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 08:17:54 +1000
- Subject: X11 capturing DISPLAY value
I wanted to capture the X11 DISPLAY value that shows on the console when 'startx &' in invoked and successful. I've tried:
startx 2>&1 | grep DISPLAY\= >/tmp/xwin.txt &
startx 2>&1 | grep DISPLAY >/tmp/xwin.txt &
but neither worked. I could check files in /tmp/.X11-unix/* for date, owner, etc, and hope that the newest one is the right one and extract the number from the name, however if another user started an X window in the meantime I'd get the wrong DISPLAY v
alue.
Is there a preferred standard way to get this value?
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