[GNC] X Forwarding starts session on remote machine?

Robert Heller heller at deepsoft.com
Sun Dec 30 15:58:09 EST 2018


At Mon, 31 Dec 2018 07:39:55 +1100 Andrew Clark <ajfclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> On Mon., 31 Dec. 2018, 00:23 Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com wrote:
> 
> > Check $DISPLAY
> >
> 
> Thanks Derek, but that's my issue. $DISPLAY is set but gnucash doesn't
> forward the display ot the xserver in $DISPLAY unless I force it by
> manually supplying the $DISPLAY variable to the --display parameter.
> 
> e.g.
> 
> This works:
> 
> gnucash --display="$DISPLAY"
> 
> 
> While this doesn't:
> 
> gnucash
> 
> 
> Other non-gnome x applications work as expected. Gnome applications also
> require me to append --display "$DISPLAY" to the commandline.

This suggests either a Gnome bug or a Gnome misset gnomw-setting...

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