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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Running X11 apps from the console after exporting DISPLAY</H1>
<B>Christiaan Welvaart</B>
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<I>Thu Jul 28 14:32:29 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, Colin Guthrie wrote:
><i> Not sure when this started happening but I presume it's a deliberate change.
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Same here, but it was "a while ago" (:
><i> When I login via text console while already running X11, and do: "export
</I>><i> DISPLAY=:0; xeyes", I expect to see some googly eyes on my desktop when
</I>><i> I switch back.
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</I>><i> But this doesn't seem to work these days. Is there something I can do to
</I>><i> make this work again? I suspect it's maybe related to not knowing the
</I>><i> path to the X11 socket file or something?
</I>
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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