[ubuntu-uk] Sending Gnome popup notifications over a network...

[Kris Douglas]

On 09/01/2008, Chris Smith <ubuntu.com at chris.cs278.org> wrote:
>
> Kris Douglas wrote:
> > Hi, thanks for the help, I tried this before, and got the message
> >
> >
> > libnotify-Message: Unable to get session bus: dbus-launch failed to
> > autolaunch D-Bus session: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed.
> >
> >
> > It appeares i would have to actually be on the X server to run it, do
> you
> > know of a way to specify the location the message is sent to? like
> display
> > :0?
> >
> What you need to do when logged in remotely as root is:
>
> DISPLAY=:0; XAUTHORITY=~owner_of:0/.Xauthority; export DISPLAY XAUTHORITY
>
> You will probably need to parse the output of `who` for the display and
> user name, that way you can send the message to everyone who is logged
> in to X on that machine. Also checkout zenity.
>
> Chris
>
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Hi, I got the following:

media at media-centre-1:~$ DISPLAY=:0; XAUTHORITY=~owner_of:0/.Xauthority;
export DISPLAY XAUTHORITY
media at media-centre-1:~$ notify-send "title message" "Message body
text"         libnotify-Message: Unable to get session bus: dbus-launch
failed to autolaunch D-Bus session: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by
server
Xlib: No protocol specified

Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed.


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Kris Douglas
      Softdel Limited Hosting Services

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