Xavier, Brice - Hi All On Sat, Dec 15 2007, at 09:45 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > On sam, 2007-12-15 at 00:07 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > Hi All > > > > Please CC me, if you respond: I'm not subscribed to this list. > > > > I'm looking for a way to run xrandr on a remote client after logging > > in to this client via ssh, and manipulate > > > > * 1 the remote clients internal display > > * 2 the remote clients external display (VGA/TV etc ...) > > You must first start the X server locally (on the remote client). Either > by login in through gdm, or through ssh by stopping gdm and typing > startx or something equivalent. > Then you can login remotely through ssh and type; > export DISPLAY=:0 > and it should work. > > If you can't login locally on the remote client, then you'll have to > know which user is logged in (often it's "gdm") and use its Xauthority > credentials. IIRC something like: > export XAUTHORITY=~gdm/.Xauthority > but you may need to setup your permissions to be able to read this file > (e.g. add yourself to the "gdm" group).
Works. Thanks a lot .. :) ... Results can be viewed here: http://heelsbroke.blogspot.com/ Merry Christmas to everyone out there :) ... And heaps of thanks to everyone who is being involved on the work of this nice new driver. Best Regards Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer: /ICQ: 286585973/ + + + /AIM: crashinglinux/ http://heelsbroke.blogspot.com/ Key: 0xE3037113 http://keyserver.mine.nu/pks/lookup?search=0xE3037113&fingerprint=on _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
