gebser@speakeasy.net writes:
Because it would take a lot of thinking to hash out which is the correct
file to put this in, whether the DISPLAY is a resource or not, whether
this variable should be set for all interactive shells or just for
logins, and because I don't wish to argue any of this, I'll just say
that I disagree and believe that .bashrc *is* the proper place for
setting DISPLAY. As said at the outset, everyone can set up their
systems however they wish.
You are free to do a lot of things - to shoot yourself in a foot, if
you like. I dare to dissent. From 'man bash':
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| When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell ... it first reads
| and executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists.
| After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login,
| and ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and executes commands from
| the first one that exists and is readable.
| ...
| When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started, bash
| reads and executes commands from ~/.bashrc, if that file exists.
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Since all non-login shells (used e.g. to run commands in a subshell)
inherit the environment from the common ancestor, the login shell, I
think it is just a loss of time to recompute every time an environment
variable that *cannot* have been changed. YMMV, of course.