DISPLAY environment variable is always 0

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I have two monitors attached to the same desktop computer. However, when I do echo $DISPLAY, it prints :0.0 on both screens. Shouldn't echo $DIPLAY print :0.1 from one of the screens?

The Vivandiere

Posted 2016-06-23T13:44:57.537

Reputation: 862

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"Although the screen number is used to select among multiple physical screen that are managed by the same X server, it is rarely set to anything other than "0" nowadays." https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnvironmentVariables. For a full answer: http://askubuntu.com/questions/432255/what-is-display-environment-variable

– Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2016-06-23T14:15:17.787

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