ERROR: Couldn't attach to DCOP server!

[Jonas Norlander]

2009/11/15 Greg Woods <greg at gregandeva.net>:
> On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 19:32 +0100, Bart Cerneels wrote:
>> Keep in mind session bus connections are related to the X-session you
>> are running.
>
> In that case I am screwed, blued, and tattooed, for what I need is to be
> able to control amarok from outside the X session, like I used to be
> able to do with DCOP. And it appears I am in fact S,B, & T. If I try it
> with just plain "ssh amarok-host-name", I get:
>
> $ qdbus org.mpris.amarok /Player
> Could not connect to D-Bus server:
> org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: dbus-launch failed to
> autolaunch D-Bus session: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed.
>
> So there is really no way to control amarok 2 from a command line
> outside of the X session it is running in?
>

I haven't read whole thread but isn't this what the xhost command is for?

/ Jonas