Making a notification bubble pop up.

Neil Woolford neil at neilwoolford.co.uk
Sun Apr 9 15:14:39 UTC 2006


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).

Neil








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