On Sun, 22 May 2011 12:01:59 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > mark@gandalf ~ $ ssh -X -Y -C laptop > Password: > Last login: Sun May 22 03:50:07 PDT 2011 from 192.168.1.2 on pts/0 > mark@laptop1 ~ $ konsole > <unknown program name>(4454)/: KUniqueApplication: Cannot find the > D-Bus session server: "/usr/bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally > with the following error: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed.
Is $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS set? Without it you will get errors like this. I have this in my .zshrc to set it on SSH logins. [[ -n "${SSH_TTY}" ]] && export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="$(cat /proc/$(pidof kded4)/environ | tr '\0' '\n' | grep DBUS | cut -d '=' -f2-)" || return 0 -- Neil Bothwick Walking on water and writing software to specification is easy if they're frozen.
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