WAYLAND_DISPLAY isn't set: aclark@discus 0 ~ $ env | grep DISPLAY DISPLAY=localhost:10.0 aclark@discus 0 ~ $ env | grep WAY aclark@discus 0 ~ $ env | grep GTK aclark@discus 0 ~ $
Which is why I was confused as to how it was finding the wayland server. Setting GTK_BACKEND=x11 does work though. On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 at 10:37, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > > > On Dec 30, 2018, at 1:25 PM, Andrew Clark <ajfcl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 at 08:22, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > > > > > > On Dec 30, 2018, at 12:58 PM, Robert Heller <hel...@deepsoft.com> > wrote: > > > > > > At Mon, 31 Dec 2018 07:39:55 +1100 Andrew Clark <ajfcl...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > >> > > >> On Mon., 31 Dec. 2018, 00:23 Derek Atkins <de...@ihtfp.com wrote: > > >> > > >>> Check $DISPLAY > > >>> > > >> > > >> Thanks Derek, but that's my issue. $DISPLAY is set but gnucash doesn't > > >> forward the display ot the xserver in $DISPLAY unless I force it by > > >> manually supplying the $DISPLAY variable to the --display parameter. > > >> > > >> e.g. > > >> > > >> This works: > > >> > > >> gnucash --display="$DISPLAY" > > >> > > >> > > >> While this doesn't: > > >> > > >> gnucash > > >> > > >> > > >> Other non-gnome x applications work as expected. Gnome applications > also > > >> require me to append --display "$DISPLAY" to the commandline. > > > > > > This suggests either a Gnome bug or a Gnome misset gnomw-setting... > > > > Or that the main display is Wayland rather than X11. > > > > That it is. I wasn't aware that running Wayland made some applications > ignore the $DISPLAY setting. > > > > Is that by design or is there some other environment variable I should > be setting ? > > IIUC Wayland has its own display variable, $WAYLAND_DISPLAY. Apparently > Gtk doesn't have a good way of determining what backend to use, or maybe it > prefers to run on Wayland if it finds it even the particular login session > is X11. > > You could try exporting GDK_BACKEND=x11 in your remote session before > starting any Gtk programs. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > -- Cheers, Andrew. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
