I used to be able to do this fairly easily, but D-bus seems to have made this a lot more complicated than it used to be. I just want to be able to run a script via ssh to make Amarok do something (like pause, skip to the next track, etc.). I have this command: qdbus org.kde.amarok /Player org.freedesktop.MediaPlayer.Pause This works fine, but only if I run it from an xterm launched from inside the same X session as Amarok. If I try to do it through an ssh session, I get this: Could not connect to D-Bus server: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: /bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally with the following error: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed. This happens whether the ssh user is the same user as the X session, a different user, or root. I have played around with various DISPLAY settings with no luck, but I doubt if that will work in any event because according to lsof, Xorg isn't even listening on the display port anyway. I have also tried, in the X session, doing "xhost +" and that doesn't change anything either. I confess that I really don't understand the connection between X and D-bus, and all I really want is to make this work. I am running Gnome and Amarok is a KDE app, so maybe there is some other KDE-related service that needs to be started? Anybody been able to make something like this work? --Greg -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
