'Twas brillig, and Christiaan Welvaart at 28/07/11 13:32 did gyre and gimble: > On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, Colin Guthrie wrote: > >> Not sure when this started happening but I presume it's a deliberate >> change. > > Same here, but it was "a while ago" (: > >> When I login via text console while already running X11, and do: "export >> DISPLAY=:0; xeyes", I expect to see some googly eyes on my desktop when >> I switch back. >> >> But this doesn't seem to work these days. Is there something I can do to >> make this work again? I suspect it's maybe related to not knowing the >> path to the X11 socket file or something? > > 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 .
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 -- Colin Guthrie mageia(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
