[GNC] X Forwarding starts session on remote machine?

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Sun Dec 30 16:20:56 EST 2018



> On Dec 30, 2018, at 12:58 PM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> 
> 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...

Or that the main display is Wayland rather than X11.

Regards,
John Ralls



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