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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] Running X11 apps from the console after exporting DISPLAY</H1>
    <B>Colin Guthrie</B> 
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<PRE>'Twas brillig, and Christiaan Welvaart at 28/07/11 13:32 did gyre and
gimble:
&gt;<i> On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, Colin Guthrie wrote:
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Not sure when this started happening but I presume it's a deliberate
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> change.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Same here, but it was &quot;a while ago&quot; (:
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> When I login via text console while already running X11, and do: &quot;export
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> DISPLAY=:0; xeyes&quot;, I expect to see some googly eyes on my desktop when
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> I switch back.
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> But this doesn't seem to work these days. Is there something I can do to
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> make this work again? I suspect it's maybe related to not knowing the
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> path to the X11 socket file or something?
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> You also need to set XAUTHORITY - I usually get its value from
</I>&gt;<i> /proc/$pid/environ for an already running process (like gnome-session).
</I>&gt;<i> But the value is something like /var/run/gdm/auth-for-$user-$X/database .
</I>
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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