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From: dinah@WILKINS.BCM.TMC.EDU (Dinah McNutt Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: xinit and -DUNIXCONN
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Date: 12 Sep 90 18:45:55 GMT
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I had a user complaining because DISPLAY was always getting set to
unix:0.0 on his SPARCstation regardless of what he did in his .login file.
Some poking around turned up that xinit was setting the DISPLAY to 
unix:0.0 when UNIXCONN was defined. This is one of the default values
for ConnectionFlags in Project.tmpl which is referenced in xinit's Imakefile. 
I have  several questions.

1) What else is UNIXCONN used for? I looked in the doc directory and
   could not find it referenced anywhere.

2) Why is this the default? 

3) What are the consequences of undefining it? I figure the only workstations
   you wouldn't want DISPLAY set to the hostname would be X-terminals and
   we don't run xinit on them anyway.

Thanks,

Dinah Anderson