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Laércio de Sousa
Asked: 2012-03-09 15:47:09 +0800 CST

How to identify proccesses by X11 display?

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I have a multiseat Ubuntu setup and I need to identify which processes of a graphical application are running in each X.Org display.

For example, I have two X.Org displays, :0 and :1, and two instances of Firefox running, one on each display. How do I find the PIDs of the processes of Firefox running on display :0 only?

Neither ps -e nor ps -T helped me. In both cases, I have a single "?" in TTY column for my Firefox processes.

multiseat x11

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  1. You can use ps -e for everything

    or ps -T for tty

    Example snippit :

    $ ps -T
  PID  SPID TTY          TIME CMD
17764 17764 pts/0    00:00:00 bash
17815 17815 pts/0    00:00:00 ps

    consult man ps for additional information

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