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

[Joshua Scotton]

On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 19:40 +0000, Kris Douglas wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/01/2008, Dave Walker <davewalker at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>         Kris Douglas wrote:
>         <SNIP>
>         > 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.
>         <SNIP>
>         
>         Try,
>         
>         sudo apt-get install dbus-x11
>         
>         Kind Regards,
>         Dave Walker
>         
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> 
> Hi, according to the machine that's already installed...
> 
> thanks for the idea though.
> 
> -- 
> Kris Douglas
>       Softdel Limited Hosting Services
> 
>       Web: www.softdel.net
>       Mail: kris at softdel.net


I was getting the same error message until I changed this part 
XAUTHORITY=~owner_of:0/.Xauthority;
to 
XAUTHORITY=/home/user/.Xauthority;

where user was the username of the person logged on and using screen :0

then it worked a treat

Josh



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