Running X app from script

On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:35:03 GMT, Robert M. Riches Jr. staggered into the Black Sun and said:

I doubt it. Dimtry wants to start a script ("ip-up" is, IIRC, a script that some distros use to activate a NIC or a PPP connection) and have that script automatically launch some X client.

This should work fine if the script runs as the user that has access to the currently active X display. This should be the case, since Linux doesn't allow SUID shell scripts--but it's entirely possible that ip-up is C wrapper around a shell script or something. If the script is running as a different user, and the X client it launches is getting "cannot connect to display :0", then it's possible to do "xhost +local:" to allow any locally-logged-in user access to the X display.

Dmitry, you can get extensive debugging information out of any bash script by putting "set -x" on the line after the #! . You may want to try that and see what's really going on. HTH,

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