Re: [vdr] [solved] VDR 1.7.28, xineliboutput 1.0.7: Using local frontend gives `No protocol specified`

Am Freitag, den 15.06.2012, 12:47 +0300 schrieb Petri Hintukainen:

On ti, 2012-06-12 at 11:31 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:

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somehow I am not able to get the local frontend to work.

Debian Sid/unstable is installed with

    $ dpkg -l vdr vdr-plugin-xineliboutput libxineliboutput-sxfe
    […]
    ii  libxineliboutput-sxfe         1.0.7+cvs20120609.1902-1      Local X-Server frontend for the xineliboutput plugin
    ii  vdr                           1.7.28-1                      Video Disk Recorder for DVB cards
    ii  vdr-plugin-xineliboutput      1.0.7+cvs20120609.1902-1      VDR plugin for Xine based sofdevice frontends

and I try to get the local frontend working but it fails.

    $ sudo -u vdr vdr -P"xineliboutput --local=sxfe --video=auto --audio=alsa --remote=none"
    No protocol specified
    No protocol specified
    No protocol specified

Maybe it has no rights to open X window. Do you see any errors in log ?

I did not see any errors printed to the terminal. What log file should I have looked at?

Do you start it from X terminal ?

Yes. I used GNOME Terminal with GNOME 3 running.

Some things to try:

• run "xhost +si:localuser:vdr" or "xhost +" before starting vdr (note that this opens a security hole)

That indeed helped. Both commands work and knowing the solution it of course is the vdr user forbidden to put windows on the X session of a different user.

• try starting without su (as current user, or with vdr option --user=vdr)

I had tried that before and the problem is that the video directory is owned by the vdr user and it looks like starting `vdr` from a normal user and passing `--user=vdr` cannot change the user. That is why I tried it with `sudo`.

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Thanks a million,

Paul