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    From The Incredible Bulk@3:770/3 to All on Sat Mar 23 10:02:04 2024
    I am trying to use unclutter on bookworm with the official 7" touchscreen.

    However I get unclutter: could not open display

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  • From The Incredible Bulk@3:770/3 to John on Sun Mar 24 07:59:22 2024
    John wrote:
    The Incredible Bulk <please.nospam@me.com> writes:

    I am trying to use unclutter on bookworm with the official 7" touchscreen. >>
    However I get unclutter: could not open display

    How and when are you running the command?

    john


    At the mmoment just from the command line to test it out

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  • From John@3:770/3 to The Incredible Bulk on Mon Mar 25 16:10:18 2024
    The Incredible Bulk <please.nospam@me.com> writes:

    John wrote:
    The Incredible Bulk <please.nospam@me.com> writes:

    I am trying to use unclutter on bookworm with the official 7" touchscreen. >>>
    However I get unclutter: could not open display
    How and when are you running the command?
    john


    At the mmoment just from the command line to test it out

    From the command line... in a terminal emulator inside X? Because if
    you're ssh'd in you'll need to tell it which display to talk to, e.g.
    DISPLAY=0 unclutter

    john

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  • From John@3:770/3 to John on Mon Mar 25 21:20:52 2024
    John <john@building-m.simplistic-anti-spam-measure.net> writes:

    The Incredible Bulk <please.nospam@me.com> writes:

    John wrote:
    The Incredible Bulk <please.nospam@me.com> writes:

    I am trying to use unclutter on bookworm with the official 7" touchscreen. >>>>
    However I get unclutter: could not open display
    How and when are you running the command?
    john


    At the mmoment just from the command line to test it out

    From the command line... in a terminal emulator inside X? Because if
    you're ssh'd in you'll need to tell it which display to talk to, e.g. DISPLAY=0 unclutter

    john

    This should, of course, be

    DISPLAY=:0 unclutter

    Mea culpa.

    john

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  • From The Incredible Bulk@3:770/3 to John on Tue Mar 26 07:41:00 2024
    John wrote:
    John <john@building-m.simplistic-anti-spam-measure.net> writes:

    The Incredible Bulk <please.nospam@me.com> writes:

    John wrote:
    The Incredible Bulk <please.nospam@me.com> writes:

    I am trying to use unclutter on bookworm with the official 7" touchscreen.

    However I get unclutter: could not open display
    How and when are you running the command?
    john


    At the mmoment just from the command line to test it out

    From the command line... in a terminal emulator inside X? Because if
    you're ssh'd in you'll need to tell it which display to talk to, e.g.
    DISPLAY=0 unclutter

    john

    This should, of course, be

    DISPLAY=:0 unclutter

    Mea culpa.

    john

    The problem is I do not know what the value for display=: should be as 0
    does not work (display not found) and all other numbers produce the same
    result

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  • From John@3:770/3 to The Incredible Bulk on Tue Mar 26 16:28:24 2024
    The Incredible Bulk <please.nospam@me.com> writes:

    John wrote:
    John <john@building-m.simplistic-anti-spam-measure.net> writes:

    The Incredible Bulk <please.nospam@me.com> writes:

    John wrote:
    The Incredible Bulk <please.nospam@me.com> writes:

    I am trying to use unclutter on bookworm with the official 7" touchscreen.

    However I get unclutter: could not open display
    How and when are you running the command?
    john


    At the mmoment just from the command line to test it out

    From the command line... in a terminal emulator inside X? Because if
    you're ssh'd in you'll need to tell it which display to talk to, e.g.
    DISPLAY=0 unclutter

    john
    This should, of course, be
    DISPLAY=:0 unclutter
    Mea culpa.
    john

    The problem is I do not know what the value for display=: should be as
    0 does not work (display not found) and all other numbers produce the
    same result

    If you are running X, it's almost certainly :0

    If you're not running X, what do you expect this X program to do when
    you run it?

    n.b. it *must* be DISPLAY=:0, not display=:0

    john

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  • From Chris Green@3:770/3 to John on Tue Mar 26 16:43:42 2024
    John <john@building-m.simplistic-anti-spam-measure.net> wrote:
    The Incredible Bulk <please.nospam@me.com> writes:

    John wrote:
    John <john@building-m.simplistic-anti-spam-measure.net> writes:

    The Incredible Bulk <please.nospam@me.com> writes:

    John wrote:
    The Incredible Bulk <please.nospam@me.com> writes:

    I am trying to use unclutter on bookworm with the official 7" touchscreen.

    However I get unclutter: could not open display
    How and when are you running the command?
    john


    At the mmoment just from the command line to test it out

    From the command line... in a terminal emulator inside X? Because if
    you're ssh'd in you'll need to tell it which display to talk to, e.g.
    DISPLAY=0 unclutter

    john
    This should, of course, be
    DISPLAY=:0 unclutter
    Mea culpa.
    john

    The problem is I do not know what the value for display=: should be as
    0 does not work (display not found) and all other numbers produce the
    same result

    If you are running X, it's almost certainly :0

    Usually :0.0 for the local display I think:-

    chris$ echo $DISPLAY
    :0.0
    chris$

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    Chris Green
    ยท

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  • From Andy Burns@3:770/3 to Chris Green on Tue Mar 26 17:07:26 2024
    Chris Green wrote:

    John wrote:

    If you are running X, it's almost certainly :0

    Usually :0.0 for the local display I think:-
    Has Wayland arrived on rPIs yet?

    It broke my ways of running X apps from consoles when it arrived in
    Fedora ...

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  • From John@3:770/3 to Chris Townley on Tue Mar 26 17:33:56 2024
    Chris Townley <news@cct-net.co.uk> writes:

    On 26/03/2024 17:07, Andy Burns wrote:
    Chris Green wrote:

    John wrote:

    If you are running X, it's almost certainly :0

    Usually :0.0 for the local display I think:-
    Has Wayland arrived on rPIs yet?
    It broke my ways of running X apps from consoles when it arrived in
    Fedora ...

    Wayland came with Bookworm, on Pi4 and Pi5. You can switch back to X
    using rpi-config

    Good call, I'd forgotten about the Wayland possibility.

    If you're running Wayland, I would be shocked if unclutter works at
    all.

    john

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  • From Chris Townley@3:770/3 to Andy Burns on Tue Mar 26 17:31:10 2024
    On 26/03/2024 17:07, Andy Burns wrote:
    Chris Green wrote:

    John wrote:

    If you are running X, it's almost certainly :0

    Usually :0.0 for the local display I think:-
    Has Wayland arrived on rPIs yet?

    It broke my ways of running X apps from consoles when it arrived in
    Fedora ...

    Wayland came with Bookworm, on Pi4 and Pi5. You can switch back to X
    using rpi-config

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    Chris

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  • From The Incredible Bulk@3:770/3 to John on Mon Apr 1 13:21:28 2024
    John wrote:
    Chris Townley <news@cct-net.co.uk> writes:

    On 26/03/2024 17:07, Andy Burns wrote:
    Chris Green wrote:

    John wrote:

    If you are running X, it's almost certainly :0

    Usually :0.0 for the local display I think:-
    Has Wayland arrived on rPIs yet?
    It broke my ways of running X apps from consoles when it arrived in
    Fedora ...

    Wayland came with Bookworm, on Pi4 and Pi5. You can switch back to X
    using rpi-config

    Good call, I'd forgotten about the Wayland possibility.

    If you're running Wayland, I would be shocked if unclutter works at
    all.

    john

    You are correct - I am using Waylnd and it does not work!

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