Re: Calling commands from php - xhost access by www-data?

elentirmo .a.t. gmail..dot..com wrote:
> Thanks Lew. My server has a bunch of movies files on a drive. I am
> going to plug the server into my tv. I want to be able to pull up my
> MySQL/PHP page and search the database like any regular app, find the
> movie I want and click a link to make it play fullscreen in totem. This
> box is goign to sit in my lounge and I'll be controlling it from my
> sofa with a wireless keyboard. So all I really need is a way to be able
> to click a link in a web page and fire up totem. I'd be just as happy
> to do it in perl.

Why not do the more proper and easy way, let a plguing in the browser open
links to streams open totem.


> With all that in mind, is there a sequence of commands I can call from
> php as the www-data user that will set up the display and get totem
> running? I can take output back from the commands to use in later calls
> if needed. i.e. what commands will tell me who owns the display (is it
> my login?) and how to get that process to issue the xhost command?

You could look for which window managers are running on the system and from
there look who owns the process.

I think you may benefit more from using apps like freevo, mythtv and you find
more apps of the same kind at freshmeat.net


//Aho
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