Can anyone explain this to me? I am sitting at witch, with an ssh session
open on wardrobe (the machines were named by my son years ago, and yes,
there is a lion.lan). I would like to run amarok on wardrobe, and
display/control it from witch. Here's what I get:

bill@wardrobe:~$ kwrite --display witch.lan:0
kbuildsycoca running...
(kwrite runs and displays on witch)

bill@wardrobe:~$ konqueror --display witch.lan:0
kbuildsycoca running...
(konqueror runs and displays on witch)

bill@wardrobe:~$ amarok --display witch.lan
: cannot connect to X server
(huh?)

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Old Man

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I remember once in August 1993
I was wrong, and I could be wrong again" - Paul Simon

Old Man wrote:

> Can anyone explain this to me? I am sitting at witch, with an ssh session
> open on wardrobe (the machines were named by my son years ago, and yes,
> there is a lion.lan). I would like to run amarok on wardrobe, and
> display/control it from witch. Here's what I get:

As an aside - Bath uni maths machines were named after characters from Lord
Of The Rings. They were connected by ethernet but I would have though a
Tolkein Ring network more appropriate.

Pete

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Peter Chant wrote:

> As an aside - Bath uni maths machines were named after characters from
> Lord
> Of The Rings. They were connected by ethernet but I would have though a
> Tolkein Ring network more appropriate.


In the early nineties, I was associated with a county library system. We
had a token ring network, as did the county courthouse. The network
administrator worked at the courthouse for the county IT department. At
one point, for his convenience, we set up a point-to-point between the
courthouse and the library, with a Slackware box at each end. He named the
box at the library rivendell and the one at the courthouse mordor. Guess
he didn't really like his day to day work environment.

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Old Man

"I could be wrong again
I remember once in August 1993
I was wrong, and I could be wrong again" - Paul Simon

Old Man wrote:
> bill@wardrobe:~$ amarok --display witch.lan
> : cannot connect to X server
> (huh?)

are you sure amarok supports the --display option?


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On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:04:29 -0500, Old Man wrote:

> Can anyone explain this to me? I am sitting at witch, with an ssh session
> open on wardrobe (the machines were named by my son years ago, and yes,
> there is a lion.lan). I would like to run amarok on wardrobe, and
> display/control it from witch. Here's what I get:
>
> bill@wardrobe:~$ kwrite --display witch.lan:0
> kbuildsycoca running...
> (kwrite runs and displays on witch)
>
> bill@wardrobe:~$ konqueror --display witch.lan:0
> kbuildsycoca running...
> (konqueror runs and displays on witch)
>
> bill@wardrobe:~$ amarok --display witch.lan
> : cannot connect to X server
> (huh?)
>

try with this:
$ export DISPLAY=witch.lan:0
$ amarok

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i.

Joost Kremers wrote:

> are you sure amarok supports the --display option?

Not at the moment, but there is this:

bill@wardrobe:~$ amarok --help-all
Usage: amarokapp [Qt-options] [KDE-options] [URL(s)]

The audio player for KDE

Generic options:
<snip>

Qt options:
--display <displayname> Use the X-server display 'displayname'
<snip>

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Old Man

"I could be wrong again
I remember once in August 1993
I was wrong, and I could be wrong again" - Paul Simon

Ivan Rajkovic wrote:

> export DISPLAY=witch.lan:0

Now I just feel stupid. That works. I swear I tried that last night and it
failed. Thanks.

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Old Man

"I could be wrong again
I remember once in August 1993
I was wrong, and I could be wrong again" - Paul Simon