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X11 DISPLAY env ignored?

#1

Trying to get sublime on a different X11 DISPLAY…
Looks like the DISPLAY environment is ignored and there’s no --display option.

What’s going on?

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#2

If ST is already running it won’t launch a new process and thus not pass any environment variables. Have you made sure ST is fully exited?

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#3

Nope, no SL running:

a@AUTO:~ $ echo $DISPLAY
172.zzz.zzz.zzz:0
a@AUTO:~ $ ps ax|grep sublime
   1277 pts/0    S+     0:00 grep --color=auto sublime
a@AUTO:~ $ /opt/sublime_text/sublime_text

uses the wrong display

BTW, it’s build 4143 on ubuntu 22.04

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#4

We don’t do anything in relation to DISPLAY; we just ask GTK for a window. Are you perhaps in a Wayland environment and it’s not using X11?

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#5

FWIW x11 forwarding over ssh worked for me last I tried.

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#6

Yah, apparently, this is on WSL, but I’m trying to move away from wayland/WSLg, because it does not make me really happy. All other apps I tried seem to respect DISPLAY or --display

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#7

AFAIK that also needs some sort of setting the display, how did you do that?

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#8

ssh just sets the DISPLAY environment variable, there was nothing I needed to do. You say other apps respect it, are they also GTK based? Perhaps running in the foreground can help, try subl --multiinstance --debug.

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