Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:38:24 -0400 From: "Victor Subervi" <victorsubervi@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem With PoEdit Message-ID: <4dc0cfea0712170638p603f73eco1c5715c621cdd18@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <448x3xoy2a.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <4dc0cfea0712140726h70fbf8e9v272d5e3d314d8335@mail.gmail.com> <448x3xoy2a.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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I've never used X before...grown to love the command line ;) I didn't have X cranked up...don't even know how to do that. I just entered "poedit" at the command line and assumed X would kick in. Should I start X? How? TIA, Victor On Dec 14, 2007 3:50 PM, Lowell Gilbert < freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > "Victor Subervi" <victorsubervi@gmail.com> writes: > > > Hi; > > I installed poedit from the port on 5.5. I didn't have X11 before, so it > > took a very_long_time. Once installed, I tried to fire it up: > > # poedit > > Error: Unable to initialize gtk, is DISPLAY set properly? > > What do? > > I don't know the program, but it looks like it only runs inside of X, > so you need to have X actually running when you start it. Was this > the case? If so, did you check what DISPLAY was set to? >
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