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NAME

XDisplayString, DisplayString − get string passed to XOpenDisplay(). 

Synopsis

char *XDisplayString(display)

      Display *display;

Arguments

displaySpecifies a connection to an X server; returned from XOpenDisplay(). 

Description

XDisplayString() returns the string that was passed to XOpenDisplay() when the current display was opened.  On POSIX-conformant systems, if the passed string was NULL, it returns the value of the DISPLAY environment variable when the current display was opened.  XDisplayString() is useful for printing error messages when XOpenDisplay() fails, and for applications that invoke the fork system call and want to open a new connection to the same display from the child process.  The C language macro DisplayString() is equivalent and slightly more efficient. 

See Also

XOpenDisplay(). 

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