Running GUI based apps in commandline.

salinia0511 · 2018-01-12 18:49:49

How should I run GUI apps on commandline(Not terminal) like firefox while desktop enviroment is running?

ayekat · 2018-01-12 18:54:36

Run

firefox

--edit or whatever other program you want to run.

Last edited by ayekat (2018-01-12 18:55:40)

Trilby · 2018-01-12 19:06:44

If you mean from a different tty, then you just need to specify the DISPLAY variable. You can check in your X session what DISPLAY is set to, but under most common setups it will just be ":0", so:

DISPLAY=:0 firefox

salinia0511 · 2018-01-12 19:29:09

How should I change DISPLAY var? tty 7 is Desktop environment and tty1 is X Server's log. I have created a user named windows and when I log in, (on every tty except 1 and 7) qemu start with Windows. but when I log in and script runs( qemu-system-x86_64 ... ) I get this message:
Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
gtk initialization failed

Trilby · 2018-01-12 19:31:00

Why are you trying to do all that? Just run qemu from within your X session.

Or do you want to start another X session for the vm?

salinia0511 · 2018-01-12 19:47:54

Yes, exactly. Simply change tty and login to a user. Your Windows is ready separate from your Desktop environment and you can kill it by pid as root if you want to exit.

Trilby · 2018-01-12 19:49:16

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinit

Arch Linux

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Running GUI based apps in commandline.

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