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
>> > DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="$(cat /proc/$(pidof kded4)/environ | tr
>> > '\0' '\n' | grep DBUS | cut -d '=' -f2-)" || return 0
>
>> Turns out I didn't have much of anything on the machine that didn't
>> come with KDE so I emerged xclock and that app opens here fine. I
>> guess that points to KDE apps only.
>>
>> I'll have to do some reading about zssh and how that differs from
>> openssh that I'm using here. Is there some equivalent of .zshrc that
>> would allow me to do the same thing? Or maybe something globally in
>> /etc/ssh?
>
> It's zsh, not zssh. Zsh is a shell, like Bash but better, so you'd put
> the same in .bashrc to use it with Bash.
>
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick
As always Neil, you continue to amaze me with the depth of solutions
you seem to have at the snap of your fingers. Truly you have forgotten
more than I shall ever know.
Your suggestion seemed to have worked perfectly in my .bashrc file.
I really appreciate the help.
Cheers,
Mark
