man xhost, and set the DISPLAY variable. I assume that this is a local apache.
On Thursday 15 December 2005 16:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > I'm setting up an automated movie player system on my Ubuntu box and > what I want to be able to do is run an application (totem) when a I > click a link to a movie on my page. This will be run from the server, > logged in as my default account (it'll be a home theatre system) > The php command I'm calling is > [EMAIL PROTECTED]("/usr/bin/totem --fullscreen /mnt/hdd1/MOVIE"); > Now because www-data is actually calling this command I get the error > (totem:9414): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: > in the apache logs. > I've tried adding www-data to sudoers, to the root group etc but no > dice. I believe it's soemthing to do with the DISPLAY environment > variable but I'm not sure how to change this or what to change it to to > enable this to work. > Others have suggested freevo or writing the app as perl+GTK but I want > to do it from PHP/Perl if at all possible > many thanks in advance for any help > > cheers > > Lucas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]