There is a known problem with Audtty when run over SSH or on a different TTY, this is not a bug in Audtty but a problem within D-Bus. In order to get this working, one must run the script dbus.sh which is located in '/usr/share/doc/audtty/examples' and then source the resultant file '~/.dbus-session' in your ~/.bashrc' or similar shell configuration so that the variables will be exported in your SSH or separate TTY environment. Whenever you run dbus.sh it will remove any previous '~/.dbus-session' that you may already have. You should re-run this script whenever DBUS or the xserver has been restarted.