RE: [SLUG] running X11 app through Apache

2005-05-02 Thread Visser, Martin
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Julio Cesar Ody Sent: Monday, 2 May 2005 3:58 PM To: slug Subject: [SLUG] running X11 app through Apache I tried to run a few GUI (X11) applications to run through my webserver, but no success so far. They simply don't run, and no error appear in any of my logs. Does anybody

Re: [SLUG] running X11 app through Apache

2005-05-02 Thread telford
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 03:57:46PM +1000, Julio Cesar Ody wrote: I tried to run a few GUI (X11) applications to run through my webserver, but no success so far. They simply don't run, and no error appear in any of my logs. Does anybody know how to do it? X11 apps need a DISPLAY variable set in

Re: [SLUG] running X11 app through Apache

2005-05-02 Thread Angus Lees
At Mon, 2 May 2005 15:57:46 +1000, Julio Cesar Ody wrote: I tried to run a few GUI (X11) applications to run through my webserver, but no success so far. They simply don't run, and no error appear in any of my logs. Does anybody know how to do it? Heh, its a crazy idea but strangely enough not

Re: [SLUG] running X11 app through Apache

2005-05-02 Thread telford
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 10:05:12PM +1000, Angus Lees wrote: At Mon, 2 May 2005 15:57:46 +1000, Julio Cesar Ody wrote: I tried to run a few GUI (X11) applications to run through my webserver, but no success so far. They simply don't run, and no error appear in any of my logs. Does anybody

Re: [SLUG] running X11 app through Apache

2005-05-02 Thread Julio Cesar Ody
Thanks for the answers so far! Yeah, it's a bizarre idea. But fact is that I need to perform an operation using OpenOffice.org, and even if you run with the -invisible parameter, it still requires that you have a Xserver, which in my humble opinion, is a lame idea. The script will run a macro on

Re: [SLUG] running X11 app through Apache

2005-05-02 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 09:27:10AM +1000, Julio Cesar Ody wrote: Thanks for the answers so far! Yeah, it's a bizarre idea. But fact is that I need to perform an operation using OpenOffice.org, and even if you run with the -invisible parameter, it still requires that you have a Xserver, Ah,

Re: [SLUG] running X11 app through Apache

2005-05-02 Thread Julio Cesar Ody
I'm laughing over here guys. Thanks for all your help, but I sorted out the issue. I put a shellscript in place to do the job before I mailed SLUG, and it wasn't working as well. So, just for the record, I decided to set the HOME path in it before doing anything else, and it ran fine. I was

[SLUG] running X11 app through Apache

2005-05-01 Thread Julio Cesar Ody
I tried to run a few GUI (X11) applications to run through my webserver, but no success so far. They simply don't run, and no error appear in any of my logs. Does anybody know how to do it? I tried to do it through a PHP script, installed as an Apache module. I'm pretty sure my Apache user has