Actually I ran it on my local system. I was expecting it to give an error when I specified a display that didn't exist, instead it turned everything green. Probably something specific to my setup. KDE4 does strange stuff sometimes.
On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 7:21 PM Bill Barry <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 3:07 AM Ben Koenig <[email protected]> wrote: > > > mplayer also has a -display option to set the display variable. > > On my system modifying DISPLAY turned my entire screen green. mostly > green. > > > > mplayer -display :0 /path/to/video > > > > I'm not really sure why DISPLAY=:1 mplayer corrupted my entire screen... > > > > > Maybe the problem is that when you ssh in to the machine you want to play > the movie on you have to be the same user that is logged into the computer > locally. > > Bill > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
