Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > it is possible... I just did it!! > > I wanted to see if I could figure this out as a way to help learn > about environments. The key here is that you've got no > DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS defined. And you've got to get the right > one. Here's how I hacked it. > > from my X session, in a terminal, run > > set | grep DBUS > tempenv > > then from a vt as root I ran > > source tempenv > > which gets that environment variable set in the current login > session. then you have to export that variable before you can access > the dbus session. > > export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS; su $user -c \ > "gnome-screensaver-command --lock" > > and lo and behold it works. It does spit out an error, but its the > same error that is spit out if you run the command within the x > session and it doesn't prevent it from locking. > > So you have to somehow get that variable out of your X session, maybe > by putting that set | grep command at the end of your .xinitrc or > whatever you use to launch X. and then you've got to somehow export > that variable so that the gnome-screensaver-command can access it. > > hth. > > A
Thank you, that looks interesting. I was looking in this direction, but didn't manage to get it working properly. Adding some lines .xsession would probably do it. I'll se what I come up with. :) -- Regards / Med vänlig hälsning: Marcus Libäck <marcus at terminal dot se> http://terminal.se/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
