From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 5 10:20:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA16956 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 10:20:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA16920 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 10:20:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA11825; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 10:21:31 -0700 Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 10:21:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Randy DuCharme cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Display variable In-Reply-To: <31B44CC8.1EEE@nconnect.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Randy DuCharme wrote: > Is there a display variable somewhere that needs to be set (FreeBSD > 2.1)? I encounter the message "unable to open display" (sometimes it's > unable to open display '' or unable to open $DISPLAY ) when I attempt > to run ghostscript, or the fvwm window manager for X, or a few other > apps. I'm new to FreeBSD and UNIX in general and realize I've probably > missed something, but I've been messing around with it, and reading man > pages for 3 weeks now and can't find the answer. DISPLAY should be set when you login. It is on my machine. I'm not on X right now or I'd echo mine. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major