Display address?
Marko Vojinovic
vvmarko at panet.co.yu
Fri Jul 21 21:40:46 UTC 2006
On Friday 21 July 2006 14:44, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> I know the display address usually (always?) is :0.0 and I would like to
> understand what the elements of this address mean. Would someone be kind
> enough as to point me to where I can read about this subject?
man X
see under section "Display Names". In short, the display address is of the
form
hostname:displaynumber.screennumber
where the counting begins with zero, and hostname --- if left empty --- is
assumed to be localhost. Hence one most commonly ends up with :0.0 :-)
Best regards, :-)
Marko
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