[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#526140: Bug#526140: $DISPLAY being set in login

[Nicolas François]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:07:00AM -0400, rodmur at maybe.org wrote:
> 
> 
> I typically log in on a regular virtual console, and then start X up via
> startx.  I've noticed that in the past month or so $DISPLAY has been set
> to localhost:0.0 when X windows is not even running.  I've been trying 
> to trace this down to discover where this is set, but I haven't found it
> yet.  So I may indeed be blaming the wrong package.  Why does this need to
> be set?  It's frankly kind of annoying, especially for anyone that uses
> keychain to set up their ssh environment.

Nice try, but this is not login.

DISPLAY is not set when I log in a console.

login does not handle DISPLAY specifically (the only program in shadow
which does is su).

Did you check /etc and the configuration files in your home directory?

Some various ideas:
/etc/security/pam_env.conf
/etc/environment
/etc/profile
/etc/bash*
~/.bash*
~/.profile

Best Regards,
-- 
Nekral