hacker (of golf) wrote:
> I'm trying to create a popup to show the connection speed.
> I'm trying this:
>
> root :~# kdialog --display localhost:0 --msgbox "Connection Speed
> `tail -n1 /var/log/ppp-connect-errors | awk '{ print $6 }'` bps"
> kdialog: cannot connect to X server localhost:0
>
> but, as you can see, it won't connect to the xserver.
>
> How can I get this to work?
Prepend:
XAUTHORITY=${USER_WITH_X}/.Xauthority
export XAUTHORITY
Now you can call your command
HS
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