Improve error message when X11 can't be detected

dictation-toolbox / dragonfly

Speech recognition framework allowing powerful Python-based scripting and extension of Dragon NaturallySpeaking (DNS), Windows Speech Recognition (WSR), Kaldi and CMU Pocket Sphinx

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Improve error message when X11 can't be detected #314

Closed dasnessie closed 3 years ago

dasnessie commented 3 years ago

I'm running i3wm on Arch Linux. XDG_SESSION_TYPE was set to "tty" despite running X11. It took me quite some time to figure out what was going on, so I wanted to make it easier for anyone encountering the same problem.

drmfinlay commented 3 years ago

Good idea, thanks for this. I have the same issue with XDG_SESSION_TYPE when enabling OpenSSH X11 forwarding. It would be nice if checking X11 was easier.

Anyhow, I'll merge this shortly and release the changes in version 0.29.0.