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

[Dave Walker]

Chris Smith wrote:
> Joshua Scotton wrote:
>> 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
> 
> Yeah the "~owner_of:0" needed to be changed to the user logged in on
> screen :0 ie. for myself it would be "~chris/.Xauthority"
> 
> 

Surely this can be substituted with XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority ?

Kind Regards,
Dave Walker