From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 28 12: 9:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (rdu57-28-046.nc.rr.com [66.57.28.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3058C37B401 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 12:09:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from localhost (marcus@localhost) by shumai.marcuscom.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7SJ9ml89493; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:09:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) X-Authentication-Warning: shumai.marcuscom.com: marcus owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:09:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Clarke To: Al Gore Cc: Subject: Re: gnome in freebsd In-Reply-To: <20010828175207.10883.qmail@usa.com> Message-ID: <20010828150618.P32755-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Do you have X running when you do this? Just typing gnome-session on the command line won't work. You need to include it in your .xinitrc. Checkout man xinit (or man startx). If you do have X up, and you're typing this in a xterm, make sure the DISPLAY variable is set correctly, and you have proper permissions on the display (man xhost). I'm shocked, "Al." I thought after inventing the Internet, gnome would be a no-brainer :-). Joe Clarke On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Al Gore wrote: > When I try to run Gnome in FreeBSD [i type "gnome-session"] I get this message: > > Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: > SESSION_MANAGER=local/:/tmp/.ICE-unix/269 > [blank line - no text] > Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: > > help! > -- > > _______________________________________________ > Talk More, Pay Less with Net2Phone Direct(R), up to 1500 minutes free! > http://www.net2phone.com/cgi-bin/link.cgi?143 > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message