[Techtalk] Accessing X program from virtual console

[David Sumbler]

Almut Behrens <almut-behrens at gmx.net> writes:

> On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 09:03:37PM +0100, David Sumbler wrote:
>> If I insert '--display=:0' to the script line, I then get:
>> 
>> "Error: Failed to connect to X server."
>
> Apparently, firefox doesn't handle the option '--display' properly
> (actually, in the docs I don't see any indication that it should --
> though I might not have looked carefully enough...).

man firefox gives:

OPTIONS
       A summary of the options supported by firefox is included below.

...
   
   X11 options
       --display=DISPLAY
              X display to use

> Anyhow, for me it works if I set the usual DISPLAY environment
> variable (which is typically not set in a virtual console).
> I.e. simply put the following additional line in the script
>
> export DISPLAY=:0
> /usr/bin/firefox  ... ...

Works a treat!

Thanks for your help.

David

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David Sumbler

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