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

[Kris Douglas]

On 11/01/2008, Chris Smith <ubuntu.com at chris.cs278.org> wrote:
>
> Dave Walker wrote:
> > 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
> >
>
> Assuming you are the user who is running the X session.
>
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Which i'm not... Thanks, I will give this a try when I get back.

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