Re: Application and TUnixSystem::SetDisplay

Hi Thomas,

  this issue is that this method should be called before a X11 connection is being made. A connection will be made as soon as you create a TApplication. So you should call gSystem->SetDisplay() before that.

• Fons

Thomas Bretz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> it is a nice feature that also if ssh doesn't export the Display and the
> user missed to set DISPLAY root exports the display correctly. I have
> tried to implement something similar into my own application liked to
> root, but I failed. Is it possible to make the feature also working for
> executables linked to root's shared objects?
>
> Thomas.

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