A little more flexible ( though more complicated ) : get the values of DISPLAY and XAUTHORITY from the environment of the awesome process :
awesome_pid="$(pgrep awesome)" eval $(tr '\0' '\n' < /proc/$awesome_pid/environ | sed -nr '/^(DISPLAY|XAUTHORITY)=/p' ) notify-send foo 2012/2/29 stardiviner <numbch...@gmail.com>: > => On [2012-02-28 11:28:09 +0100]: > Daniel Martí Said: >> >> >> >My local hack to make dbus find itself: >> > >> >XAUTHORITY=/home/psychon/.Xauthority DISPLAY=:0 notify-send foo >> > >> >Uli >> >> I use that too, with an if statement comfirming I'm the user and not root >> via `whoami` > Thanks, solved. >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org. >> > > -- >>> stardiviner << =>GPG: 5D9F64D8 Twitter: @numbchild > http://stardiviner.dyndns-blog.com/author.html -- Vivian Brégier http://www.are-ata.org/Vivian.vcf -- To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org.
