[systemd-devel] Small tool to spawn programs in graphical sessions from non-graphical ones

[Mantas Mikulėnas]

On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 2:28 PM, James May <fowlthe2nd at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1 September 2013 01:16, Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh at inai.de> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Saturday 2013-08-31 14:28, killermoehre wrote:
>> >>Doesn't Amarok starts if you prefix it with the right DISPLAY variable?
>> >>Like »DISPLAY=:0 amarok«. This should work from cron, too.
>> >
>> > Normally, you also need to set XAUTHORITY= to the right path --
>> > since you do not want just anybody to be able to connect to your :0.
>>
>> And then there are sessions /not/ on :0. Like when the display
>> manager's login screen is on :0 (although this mostly happens in weird
>> situations like startx'ing when a DM is running), or when Xorg crashes
>> and doesn't delete the lockfile for :0 so the next session gets :1, or
>> – what heresy – when there's a second user logged in, with /their/
>> session on :0.
>>
>> ...sometimes I think Xorg should start at :1 instead, and reserve :0
>> for annoying cronjobs and services that have DISPLAY=":0" hardcoded,
>> to remind everyone that they're using a multi-user OS.
>>[..]
>
> Welcome to Windows circa 2006 ;P
>
> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2007/05/08/2470754.aspx

Exactly my point.

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Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity at gmail.com>