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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Sorry for the newbie question, but is there a null display setting for the $DISPLAY env variable?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I want to do the equivalent of:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> </FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier">>xclock -display null:0.0</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier">Or</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier"> >export DISPLAY=null:0.0</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier"> >xclock &</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Where the above would make the display manager think it is bringing up xclock on a perfectly good display that is the equivalent of /dev/null.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Any ideas?</FONT>
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