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Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 06:46:51 -0400
From: Ben Williams <williamsl@home.com>
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To: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
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Subject: Re[2]: pop up notice for x
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   If you're using /bin/sh you might need to separate your 'export...'
line like this:

DISPLAY=:0.0
export DISPLAY

   I seem to recall the export <varname>[=<value>] is a bash
enhancement that is not present in all shells. Also how are you
running X? If by startx then you probably don't have any xauth issues
but if you're running from xdm you may need to man xauth.

HTH,
--Ben Williams
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Quoting j mckitrick                                Sunday, July 09, 2000
> On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 10:42:03AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
>> "export DISPLAY=:0.0" should work.  If you're running multiple X

> so close... the script now works when i run it from a console- it pauses and
> when i switch to the X display, the xmessage is there.  but when the apm
> event triggers it, it still doesn't show.  yet the logger command works.
> the echo command may not, i'm not sure.

> anyway, i put "export DISPLAY=:0.0" in the script, and that has at least
> taken me one step in the right direction.  now if only it would work when
> the system ran it....


> jm




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