From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Sep 13 18:50:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from alexandria.thedial.com (alexandria.thedial.com [204.252.162.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3B1A14C05 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 18:50:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from james@thedial.com) Received: from mukmuk.thedial.com ([204.252.162.131] helo=thedial.com) by alexandria.thedial.com with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11Qhln-000PLs-00 for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 18:52:31 -0700 Message-ID: <37DDBB6B.2FD51DC5@thedial.com> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 20:05:15 -0700 From: james Organization: theDial < www.thedial.com > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Gnome wont start. References: <0003546b7c1c910a_mailit@mail.ngga.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------- james nigh systems administrator/webmaster icq 27459905 theDial "Broadcasting for the New World" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message