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[Robert Schroll <rschroll@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Michał Sawicz 
<michal.sawicz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 08.07.2014 17:25, Robert Schroll wrote:
> >  How does one do that?  Every time I try to launch an application 
> > from an
> >  ssh session, I get
> >
> > >  QUbuntu: Could not create application instance
> > >  Aborted (core dumped)
> >
> >  Obviously, there's some special sauce that I'm missing.
>
> A temporary workaround for that (until we get proper support for gdb
> runs) is passing:
>
> --desktop_file_hint=/path/to/your/file.desktop

It's not working for me, I'm afraid.  For example:

> phablet@ubuntu-phablet:/usr/share/click/preinstalled/com.ubuntu.dropping-letters/0.1.2.2.52$ 
> qmlscene -qt5 ./dropping-letters.qml 
> --desktop_file_hint=/usr/share/click/preinstalled/com.ubuntu.dropping-letters/0.1.2.2.52/dropping-letters.desktop
> QUbuntu: Could not create application instance
> Aborted (core dumped)

Do I need to do some equivalent of "export DISPLAY=:0.0"?

Thanks,
Robert