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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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