AW: [gentoo-user] Question about the dcop utility: How to use it from a remote computeR?

Hi,

>Von: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [mailto:bss03@××××××××××.net]
>Gesendet: Di 9/26/2006 3:56
>An: gentoo-user@l.g.o
>Betreff: Re: [gentoo-user] Question about the dcop utility: How to use it from a remote computeR?
<snip>

>I've never used DCOP, but I figured this was probably related to
>environment variables, so I did an strace on a simple dcop invocation to
>try and figure out why it can't find the (presumably) running dcop server
>on "O".

>On my system communication with the local DCOP server is via
>~/.DCOPserver_<hostname>__0, and I'm fairly sure the _0 at the end
>corresponds to part of my DISPLAY setting, ":0", indicating a local X
>server.  You may need to set your DISPLAY environment variable on "O"
>before you do the dcop invocation.

>Assuming "O" is a standard desktop machine and you are the only one logged
>on to it, you should be able to do something like:
>ssh O env DISPLAY=:0.0 dcop
>to get the standard dcop output.

THANK YOU! That worked like a charm!
Problem solved..
The only sure-fire way to determine the correct DISPLAY setting is to pull 
it from the X session you want to connect to. E.g.:
$ env | grep ^DISPLAY
DISPLAY=:0.0

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