Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 21:04:24 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Kun Niu <haoniukun@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem about the $DISPLAY environment variable Message-ID: <20050803020424.GA93405@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <ec9e7ff1050802173954d7a91c@mail.gmail.com> References: <ec9e7ff1050802173954d7a91c@mail.gmail.com>
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In the last episode (Aug 03), Kun Niu said: > This problem occurs when I start to launch "startkde". First, it > mentioned $DISPLAY was not set. Then I use command "export > DISPLAY=:0.0" to set it. After that I typed the command startkde. The > error was "can't connect to :0.0" Can someone tell me how to solve > the problem? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.:) startkde is meant to be run after X has started. It doesn't start X itself. Try putting it in your ~/.xinitrc file, then run "startx". -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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