Hi, >Von: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Gesendet: Di 9/26/2006 3:56 >An: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >Betreff: Re: [gentoo-user] Question about the dcop utility: How to use it from >a remote computeR? <snip>
>I've never used DCOP, but I figured this was probably related to >environment variables, so I did an strace on a simple dcop invocation to >try and figure out why it can't find the (presumably) running dcop server >on "O". >On my system communication with the local DCOP server is via >~/.DCOPserver_<hostname>__0, and I'm fairly sure the _0 at the end >corresponds to part of my DISPLAY setting, ":0", indicating a local X >server. You may need to set your DISPLAY environment variable on "O" >before you do the dcop invocation. >Assuming "O" is a standard desktop machine and you are the only one logged >on to it, you should be able to do something like: >ssh O env DISPLAY=:0.0 dcop >to get the standard dcop output. THANK YOU! That worked like a charm! Problem solved.. The only sure-fire way to determine the correct DISPLAY setting is to pull it from the X session you want to connect to. E.g.: $ env | grep ^DISPLAY DISPLAY=:0.0 -- "If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh
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