Re: Gnome?
Re: Gnome?
- Subject: Re: Gnome?
- From: Bill Janssen <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:45:33 PDT
- Comments: In-reply-to Brandon Allbery <email@hidden> message dated "Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:33:18 -0700."
Brandon Allbery <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Apr 15, 2009, at 22:59 , Bill Janssen wrote:
> > So, is there any way I can get a UUID for a server, without setting it
> > myself? I'd like two different clients to be able to see if they're
> > talking to the same server. I don't see an easy way to do this, given
> > that there are a number of different ways to express the name of the
> > server, particularly from different machines.
>
>
> Canonically you want to set a root window property, probably to a
> random string from /dev/{,u}random. If you don't find the property,
> set it. Unfortunately there isn't any such property provided by
> default.
>
> $DISPLAY is indeed quite useless for this, it can be a proxied
> connection via ssh or xmove2, etc.
Yep, that was sort of my conclusion, too. Thanks.
Bill
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| | >Re: Gnome? (From: Pierre Baguis <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: Gnome? (From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: Gnome? (From: Bill Janssen <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: Gnome? (From: Brandon Allbery <email@hidden>) |