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[Mageia-dev] Running X11 apps from the console after exporting DISPLAY

+ Christiaan Welvaart + cjw at daneel.dyndns.org +
+ Thu Jul 28 14:32:29 CEST 2011 +

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On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+
+> Not sure when this started happening but I presume it's a deliberate change.
+
+Same here, but it was "a while ago" (:
+
+> When I login via text console while already running X11, and do: "export
+> DISPLAY=:0; xeyes", I expect to see some googly eyes on my desktop when
+> I switch back.
+>
+> But this doesn't seem to work these days. Is there something I can do to
+> make this work again? I suspect it's maybe related to not knowing the
+> path to the X11 socket file or something?
+
+You also need to set XAUTHORITY - I usually get its value from 
+/proc/$pid/environ for an already running process (like gnome-session).
+But the value is something like /var/run/gdm/auth-for-$user-$X/database .
+
+
+     Christiaan
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