[GNC] X Forwarding starts session on remote machine?

Andrew Clark ajfclark at gmail.com
Sun Dec 30 16:25:16 EST 2018


On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 at 08:22, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
>
> > 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.
>

That it is. I wasn't aware that running Wayland made some applications
ignore the $DISPLAY setting.

Is that by design or is there some other environment variable I should be
setting ?

-- 
Cheers,

Andrew.


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