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ihavenoname

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Registered: 2006-01-09

Posts: 198

starting a X program from console?

Is there a way to start an X program from console? No not like gnome-terminal, I mean like using tty1 to start a program for a running X session.

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skymt

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Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 443

Re: starting a X program from console?

Of course! Just run this line first:

export DISPLAY=:0.0

ihavenoname

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Registered: 2006-01-09

Posts: 198

Re: starting a X program from console?

Of course! Just run this line first:

export DISPLAY=:0.0

Wow thanx!!

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In this land of the pain the sane lose not knowing they were part of the game.

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pauldonnelly

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Registered: 2006-06-19

Posts: 776

Re: starting a X program from console?

If for some reason you don't want to export the DISPLAY variable you can also do DISPLAY=:0.0 xload (or whatever your program is).

ihavenoname

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Registered: 2006-01-09

Posts: 198

Re: starting a X program from console?

If for some reason you don't want to export the DISPLAY variable you can also do DISPLAY=:0.0 xload (or whatever your program is).

very nice, thanx!

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In this land of the pain the sane lose not knowing they were part of the game.

~LP