Re: LYNX-DEV DISPLAY variable settings

[T.E.Dickey]

> I received the following message in the "TODO" context and am
> forwarding it to the list for possible discussion:
I think it's ok the way it is.  (Stashing $DISPLAY in .lynxrc would produce
more problems than it would ever solve, except for the minority of people
who never use more than one machine to display upon).  It's just a useful
sanity check.
 
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> From: address@hidden (Andreas Leitgeb)
> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 10:07:04 -0600
> when I start Lynx without a DISPLAY-variable, I'd still like
> to be able to specify the display in the option-form and NOT get
> the following message: (for example if an X-display becomes available
> later)
> "... WARNING: Lynx is NOT configured for XWINDOWS!"
> -----
> 
> 1)  The DISPLAY variable isn't saved to .lynxrc, so setting it in the
>     options screen rather than the command line is dubious.
> 
> 2)  I'm not sure who might be capable of actually hooking in XWindows
>     library code to get an X-display to function.
> 
> 3)  What is the value of suppressing the warning that this doesn't work?
> 
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> <http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/db/users/us/md/lib/bcpl/jspath/face.xbm>
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> today.
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