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Subject: Re: Spawning Xdialogs from devd...
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> Even if running X under root, it's the same behaviour. Unless devd is
> restarted, there is no sound or xdialogs. If I restart devd from
> another console, then the sound device becomes available and sound can

do you restart devd from xterm? if so - DISPLAY gets set


> be heard, but no Xdialogs. If devd is restarted from within X, then
> both sound and Xdialogs are ok. This is with any window manager, and
> nothing much else is running here to screw things up.
>
> The script is definitely being run on the keypress each time. There's
> obviously something I'm missing about devd here.
>
>>
>> ln -s /home/<user>/.Xuathority to /root/.Xauthority
>>
>> and of course add
>>
>> DISPLAY=:0 before Xdialog
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