Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 20:05:15 -0700 From: james <james@thedial.com> To: "freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org" <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Gnome wont start. Message-ID: <37DDBB6B.2FD51DC5@thedial.com> References: <0003546b7c1c910a_mailit@mail.ngga.com>
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Bruce Leggett wrote:
>
> All,
> I bought the FreeBSD Power Pack and installed a 3.2 generic system. When I
> did this I opted to make Gnome my main overlay (not sure the correct term for
> this). I use KDE in Linux so I thought this would be a great chance to use
> the competition..so to say. Well if I use startx the system comes up into
> what looks like Aftersomething (not sure, never used this before). If I type
> gnome-session from the command line I get the following error:
>
> gtk-warning **: cannot open display
whenever i've gotten that, it had to do w/ something i mis-typed in my
Bash config file. if you use Bash, make sure you have a line like this
in your /$HOME/.bashrc file:
DISPLAY='mukmuk:0.0'
("mukmuk" being the equivalent of whatever your machines' name is.....)
hope this helps,
james
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