*****SPAM***** Re: [mythtv-users] MythWeb Remote Control extention. (OT?)

don don at donbrown.ca
Fri Mar 25 21:39:36 UTC 2005


>> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 22:08:11 -0500, don<don at donbrown.ca> wrote: 
>> When I first heard of this extention to 
>> the  MythWeb interface I got excited > that I would be able to use 
>> my  PocketPC as a remote control for myth (It's a 
>> Dell X5 and the IR is  not strong enough to use one of the avaliable
>> Remote Control programs  unless I'm 2 feet from the reciever). 
>> However, 
>> I've not been able  to get this extention to work properly. 
>> The webpage appears fine, but  clicking on the buttons does nothing. 
>> 
>> For those of you who have not  checked out this module, it uses 
>> 'sendxevent' in > from a CGI script to  send key presses to the 
>> 'CurrentWindow' on :0.0 > > If I run the script  that gets called 
>> from the CGI script as mythtv (the user > logged on to  kdm and the 
>> preson running mythfrontend), it works fine. > > When I run  it from 
>> the web page, I get the error: 
>> Xlib: connection to "mythtv.mydomain:0.0" refused by server 
>> Xlib: No protocol specified 
>>  Can't open DISPLAY. 
>>
>On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 21:57:58 -0800, MagicITX wrote
> Add this line to your <homedir>/.xinitrc file:
>   /usr/X11R6/bin/xhost +
> 

For the archives, that fixed it!
Don


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