Making a notification bubble pop up.

[Alan McKinnon]

On Sunday 09 April 2006 17:14, Neil Woolford wrote:
> Pupeno <pupeno <at> pupeno.com> writes:
> > On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 13:17 +0000, Neil Woolford wrote:
> > > Neil Woolford <neil <at> neilwoolford.co.uk> writes:
> > >
> > >
> > > Sorry, should have quoted the results of trying to use zenity
> > > with the --display option;
> > >
> > > neil <at> ubuntu:~ $ zenity --warning --text="Only me pal"
> > > --display=:20 Xlib: connection to ":20.0" refused by server
> > > Xlib: No protocol specified
> > >
> > >
> > > Neil
> >
> > The user test has to allow you to connect to his/her display, man
> > xhost.
>
> Thanks.  Works fine on my local machine;  any way of setting xhost
> on the remote machine without having to talk my user through it on
> the phone?  So far it does seem that the basic security in the
> system stops me using xhost remotely (ie outside the x-session that
> I want to be able to display on).

ssh to the machine and run the xhost command after setting DISPLAY 
(see the man page for why you can't 'xhost -display :0')

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Alan McKinnon
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