Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 17:42:54 +0530 From: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Saifi?=" <saifi@twincling.org> To: "Barnaby Scott" <bds@waywood.co.uk>, "John Nielsen" <lists@jnielsen.net>, "" <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gtk-Warning **: Cannot open display Message-ID: <20060518121257.23427.qmail@coolhost77.com>
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> From: Barnaby Scott <bds@waywood.co.uk> > Subject: Re: Gtk-Warning **: Cannot open display > Sent: 18 May '06 16:45 > > John Nielsen wrote: > > On Tuesday 16 May 2006 17:07, Barnaby Scott wrote: > >> Kevin Kinsey wrote: > >>> Barnaby Scott wrote: > >>>> So, I installed Firefox from ports, having made sure everything was > >>>> bang up to date. Evrything seemed to go perfectly well, but lo and > >>>> behold, first attempt to use it and I get this: > >>>> > >>>> (firefox-bin:582): Gtk-Warning **: Cannot open display > >>>> > >>>> What the..? > >>>> Hi: You may want to check the following. 1. prompt$ xhost + (from the connecting client) 2. export DISPLAY=client-ip-address:0.0 Firefox should start if the above mentioned settings are in place. Hope this helps. thanks Saifi. TWINCLING Society, India http://www.twincling.org/
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