Re: [gentoo-user] Display indirect login X app here?

2011-05-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 24 May 2011 10:50:49 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Display indirect login X app here?

2011-05-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:35 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Display indirect login X app here?

2011-05-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 24 May 2011 10:50:49 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: 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'

Re: [gentoo-user] Display indirect login X app here?

2011-05-23 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Monday 23 May 2011 02:42:21 Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: Obvious fix: don't use konsole. Use xterm. -- Bill Longman Bill, That's not a fix as it isn't konsole I care about but things like oocalc,

Re: [gentoo-user] Display indirect login X app here?

2011-05-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
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:

[gentoo-user] Display indirect login X app here?

2011-05-22 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm on a Gentoo box here and ssh'ed into a remote network at my folks house. When I log into the Gentoo machine that the router points to (my dad's desktop) I have no problem displaying an X app (gnome-terminal for instance) running on that machine here on my screen. However when I ssh from

Re: [gentoo-user] Display indirect login X app here?

2011-05-22 Thread Jeremy McSpadden
Rather than trying to ssh tunnel + X, why not vpn into one of the machines, that would allow you to be local and you can then ssh to each machine on the lan from your local. -- Jeremy McSpadden def...@uberpenguin.net On May 22, 2011, at 2:01 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I'm on a Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Display indirect login X app here?

2011-05-22 Thread Mark Knecht
OK, I'll give it a try. I've not used VPNs since my abortive Windows days so I have little trust but it would be good to learn about. Unfortunately I changed the router to point directly at the laptop and I still can't launch anything graphical so I'm no longer thinking that the root cause is the

Re: [gentoo-user] Display indirect login X app here?

2011-05-22 Thread Bill Longman
Obvious fix: don't use konsole. Use xterm. -- Bill Longman

Re: [gentoo-user] Display indirect login X app here?

2011-05-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: Obvious fix: don't use konsole. Use xterm. -- Bill Longman Bill, That's not a fix as it isn't konsole I care about but things like oocalc, systemsettings and other things which all fail with the same error