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[Discuss] runlevel 5 service cannot connect to display



Actually, the service is just a JMS consumer, it doesn't require UI. When
it receive a message, it calls an external application which needs X11.
There is actually nothing shows on display.

On 1/30/13 4:26 PM, "Rich Pieri" <richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:05:03 -0800
>William Chan <wichan at adobe.com> wrote:
>
>> I have my service  #chkconfig 5 99 37 since my service needs x11
>
>If it requires X11 then it isn't a service. It's an X11 application. It
>will never run as a service as long as it requires an active X11 server.
>
>I suggest separating the service from the UI. This way you can run the
>service as a service and the UI as a UI.
>
>-- 
>Rich P.
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