In C++, how do i go about using setenv to set the display? I need to set it like this:
export DISPLAY=0.0
1、setenv("DISPLAY",":0.1",1);
If you're calling the xrandr functions from your C++ program, then I would expect setenv() should work for you. The 3rd argument of 1 tells setenv() to overwrite any previous value of argument 1 (DISPLAY). You'd be out of luck if xrandr cached the display name though. In that case, you'd have to re-invoke a program from a shell script: the shell script could set the DISPLAY each time before starting your program. That would be less C++ coding
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main(){
char *env1 = getenv("test11");
printf("test11=%s\n", env1); //show current env variable
setenv("test11","abcd",1); //reset it
env1 = getenv("test11");
printf("test11=%s\n", env1);
//this value reset is gone after the program finished
return 0;
}
g++ setenv.cpp -o mysetenv
