[CALUG] ${DISPLAY}

[William Kupersanin]

Do you mean like xvfb?

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Jason C. Miller
<jason.c.miller at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know of any universal methods to set the DISPLAY to direct X
> traffic to a dummy device so that a GUI can run even if no windowing
> environment is running?
>
> Once upon a time in a galaxy far far away, I found some apps that ran when
> DISPLAY was set to "/dev/null", but that is hardly universal, was a very
> unique case, and was an awful hack.
>
> Are there any tricks for doing anything like this?
>
>                                ~j
>
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