On 1 September 2013 01:16, Mantas Mikulėnas <graw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Jan Engelhardt <jeng...@inai.de> wrote: > > > > On Saturday 2013-08-31 14:28, killermoehre wrote: > >>Doesn't Amarok starts if you prefix it with the right DISPLAY variable? > >>Like »DISPLAY=:0 amarok«. This should work from cron, too. > > > > Normally, you also need to set XAUTHORITY= to the right path -- > > since you do not want just anybody to be able to connect to your :0. > > And then there are sessions /not/ on :0. Like when the display > manager's login screen is on :0 (although this mostly happens in weird > situations like startx'ing when a DM is running), or when Xorg crashes > and doesn't delete the lockfile for :0 so the next session gets :1, or > – what heresy – when there's a second user logged in, with /their/ > session on :0. > > ...sometimes I think Xorg should start at :1 instead, and reserve :0 > for annoying cronjobs and services that have DISPLAY=":0" hardcoded, > to remind everyone that they're using a multi-user OS. >[..]
Welcome to Windows circa 2006 ;P http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2007/05/08/2470754.aspx -- James _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
