Re: LYNX-DEV DISPLAY variable settings

[Andreas Leitgeb]

> But he's right that it would sometimes be nice to be able to tell Lynx,
> "Ok, now I have an X display available, please use it when I try to
> invoke a graphical viewer."  A Lynx session has enough context that it
> can be painful to exit and restart -- you lose your history, visited
> pages, etc.  He's asking about adding it in mid-session.
Thanx, Bela, you got me completely right.  
In my case this usually happens, when i use Lynx within screen, and then
transfer my session to the nearby X-terminal (that wasn't free before).

> file, get rid of the ``test=test -n "$DISPLAY"'' clause:
>   image/jpeg; xv %s
... or perhaps just removing the "XWINDOWS"-keyword  in lynx.cfg
at each "VIEWER:image/x-*"-line ...

but on the other hand, I'm glad, that when  I'm actually not running  with X
it asks me for download before actually downloading it (which it does not do, 
if it expects the external viewer to be available ...) 

so this trick helps , but is not really satisfactory.

PS: please keep my address in the Cc: field, because I'd like to follow
  this discussion further, but haven't got the time to handle another
whole mailing-list (I'm  already subscribed to two others)

PPS: if  the problem actually only depends on setting that one flag 
(test -n "$DISPLAY"), then this can't be to hard to solve ...
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