Re: Bug in parsing $DISPLAY

[Adam Fedor]

Paul Fox wrote:
> GNUSTEP GUI 0.7.8
>         BACK 0.7.8
>         BASE 1.3.3
>
> If you have your environment variable like this:
>
>         DISPLAY=89.0.0.22:0
>
> then the startup code fails to parse it correctly and you get weird X
> errors about XCreateGC failing. In my environment, DISPLAY is set
> by exceed hummingbird and it took me some time to realise this was what
> was causing the problem. Setting it to 
>
>         DISPLAY=hostname:0
>
> made it work (well nearly but thats for another bug report :-) )

I rewrote this section to be more robust. Thanks for the report.

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