This is because audtool needs the D-Bus address set in the $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable.
This is set when you are logged in via X, but not when you login via ssh. You can workaround this by saving the address in a file and sourcing it when you login without it set. I did this by putting this in my .tcshrc: (will work with csh/tcsh, but you'd need to rewrite it for sh/bash variants) ####################### # Create an alias that starts audacious after saving DBUS address if ( $?DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS ) then alias audacious "echo 'setenv DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS \$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS' > ~/.dbusAddr && \audacious" endif # If we don't have DBUS but the file exists, source it if ( -f ~/.dbusAddr && ( !($?DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS ))) then source ~/.dbusAddr endif ####################### Hope that helps! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
