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

Fri Jul 29 10:29:05 CEST 2011

'Twas brillig, and Christiaan Welvaart at 28/07/11 13:32 did gyre and
+gimble:
+> 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 .
+
+Cool, that works fine :)
+
+Probably worth writing a little script to do that parsing for me as I'll
+no doubt forget in time...
+
+Cheers
+
+Col
+
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