diff --git a/jdk/test/java/awt/Toolkit/BadDisplayTest/BadDisplayTest.sh b/jdk/test/java/awt/Toolkit/BadDisplayTest/BadDisplayTest.sh
index f4a54d300c7..e58072890c1 100644
--- a/jdk/test/java/awt/Toolkit/BadDisplayTest/BadDisplayTest.sh
+++ b/jdk/test/java/awt/Toolkit/BadDisplayTest/BadDisplayTest.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (c) 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+# Copyright (c) 2012, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
 # DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
 #
 # This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@
 ${TESTJAVA}/bin/javac -cp ${TESTSRC} -d . ${TESTSRC}/BadDisplayTest.java
 
 
-export DISPLAY=
+DISPLAY=
+export DISPLAY
 
 OS=`uname -s`
 case "$OS" in