Re: howto get popup for connection speed

From: Matias Rollan (cygar_at_safesource.com.ar)
Date: 07/21/05

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    Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 20:39:19 -0300
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

    Hola !

    On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 06:44:16PM -0400, 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?
    >

    If you running the X server as the same user you are trying to execute
    "kdialog" you might want to try this:

    root:~# kdialog --msgbox "This is a test." --display `env |grep -i display |cut
    -d'=' -f 2`

    or better instead of doing that [env|grep|cut] just use:

    # kdialog --msgbox "this is a test" --display $DISPLAY

    which actually is what we want to get , the value for DISPLAY
    environment variable. :)

    [ instead of using "localhost:0" take a look at the DISPLAY environment
    variable ]

    If you are not running the X server as the user who wants to execute the

    kdialog and you want let others [any] user from [any] host [ not recommended ] :
     $ xhost +
     # export DISPLAY=:0.0 && kdialog...

    Other option would be ssh forwarding to your own box.
     $ ssh -Xf root@localhost 'kdialog --msgbox ......... '

    I hope it helps, 

    -- 
  Matías Rollán
  <cygar@safesource.com.ar>
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