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[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday May 8 2009, Per Jessen wrote:
> Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > On Thursday May 7 2009, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > > On Thursday, 2009-05-07 at 12:20 +0200, Per Inge Oestmoen wrote:
> > > > I have tried YaST, not YaST2, because the latter could not even
> > > > see the disk.
> > >
> > > It is the same program:
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > However, yast2 knows that if you call it as yast from a terminal
> > > it is because you want ncurses mode instead of graphical.
> >
> > To be clear, YaST2 looks for the DISPLAY environment variable. If
> > it's set, it uses the GUI mode (on the X11 display indicated by
> > DISPLAY).
>
> I was about to say the very same thing, but it's not correct.  If you
> run 'yast', you get the ncurses interface, if you run YaST2 you get
> the GUI (assuming DISPLAY is set).  I've just tried it on an 11.1
> system.

What I wrote is true, and I tested all the invocations I gave.

I've never used "yast" only "YaST2".


> /Per


Randall Schulz
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