On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Mark Newton wrote:

> If you set $DISPLAY to unix:0.0 instead of :0.0 it'll try to use a
> UNIX-domain socket instead of a pipe to talk to the X server.

Ah, I see! I've added this question and answer to the NetBSD/sparc
FAQ on our website. (It won't appear for a few hours yet, though.)

cjs
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