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GUI notifications from privileged scripts?

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https://bbs.archlinux.org – I have various scripts which use a facility to trigger a GUI popup notification under certain conditions. Many of these scripts are run with root privileges but I need the popups to appear in a user's X session. I'm trying to migrate these scripts from OS X to Linux but I've run into some problems. I have found various different ways of getting popup notifications and these work fine when I run the command or script myself from the command line but they fail if run as root at the command line or if included in a script running with privileges. (I haven't tried scheduled non (HowTos)

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Submitted by Danial on 12/31/2011 – Made popular on 12/31/2011

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Crunchbang User Repository 1 year 3 weeks ago

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I'm probably doing something remarkably stupid, but I can't figure out what.

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