Hi Paul,
You just need to set DISPLAY correctly. You can check what it's set to in
a terminal in XFCE:
$ echo $DISPLAY
:0
Then in the terminal your connected on the serial console, set it to the same
thing;
$ export DISPLAY :0
Then test launching an any X app (I tested using gedit + it work).
S++
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 22:25:28 -0700
>From: "Paul D. DeRocco" <[email protected]>
>To: "PyGTK List" <[email protected]>
>Subject: [pygtk] Launching PyGTK app from a serial console
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>I've put pygtk onto a Gumstix Overo board, which uses the XFCE desktop
>manager (GTK-based). At the moment, I'm using a Tobi expansion board and a
>full-sized monitor, but eventually I want to switch to a Chestnut43 board
>with a 4.3" LCD.
>
>At present, I can successfully launch a graphical Python app from a terminal
>window on the screen, but on a tiny LCD I want the app to fill the screen,
>so I want to launch from something else. If I try launching the Python app
>from a serial console, it barfs because it doesn't know what to display it
>on.
>
>Can anyone explain to me how PyGTK finds the windowing system so that it can
>create its window? Is it something in the environment? I don't see any
>likely candidate. Eventually, I may want to use an X server on another
>machine to run a development console, in which case I'll still want my PyGTK
>app to use the small LCD instead of putting itself up on my X server. But
>for now, is there some way I can run Python from a serial console and have
>it put up a PyGTK window on the only display?
>
>--
>
>Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco
>Paul mailto:[email protected]
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