Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 19:29:57 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com> To: "Chris F." <theta@gte.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XWindows: Can't open display: Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970726192820.4449B-100000@acp.qiv.com> In-Reply-To: <199707261927.OAA24580@smtp.gte.net>
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Try: export DISPLAY=:0.0 or setenv DISPLAY :0.0 depending on your shell. You have to do this anytime you use 'su -'. You shouldn't be working as root anyway. -- Jay On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Chris F. wrote: ->I am using FreeBSD 2.2.2. When running Xwindows applications I get the ->following error: -> ->(When I don't set the display variable) -> ->Error: Can't open display: -> ->(When I set it to :0) -> ->Error: Can't open display: :0 -> ->I don't know what I should set my display variable to. I have tried setting ->it to :0, unix:0, unix:0.0, as they were suggested in archived mailing list ->messages. None of them caused any different results. Please copy all ->suggestions to me at theta@gte.net. -> ->Thank you, ->Chris -> ->
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