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Asked: 2018-09-17 20:22:48 +0800 CST

14.04 stop Xhost running at login

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Anyone know how to stop xhost running at login for cli logins?

all it gives is "xhost: unable to open display """ error because theres no Xserver running on this system.

Regards, A

command-line 14.04

1 Answers

  1. I assume that you have an unconditional xhost in your ~/.bashrc.

    The problem is that xhost tries to communicate with the X server that owns the current "X display".

    CLI executions don't have a current "X display", thus the error message from xhost.

    You can check for the existence of the pointer to the current "X display" the same was xhost does, only in bash, and before calling xhost: 

    if [[ -n "$DISPLAY" ]] ; then
    xhost
fi
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