Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 08:51:04 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Barnaby Scott <bds@waywood.co.uk> Cc: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gtk-Warning **: Cannot open display Message-ID: <446C7BC8.6010608@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <446C574A.5090904@waywood.co.uk> References: <446A2C57.3080401@waywood.co.uk> <446A38B2.20606@daleco.biz> <446A3F04.9090506@waywood.co.uk> <200605171441.49907.lists@jnielsen.net> <446C574A.5090904@waywood.co.uk>
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Barnaby Scott wrote: > So now I can strat Firefox from an xterm, but 2 things still puzzle me > though: > 1) Forgive my stupidity, but why can I not start Firefox from the > console? Or rather, what could I do to make it do so with a single command? I'm perfectly willing to be wrong, flamed, and corrected, but my counter question (and it seems a good one to me): how do you expect to run a graphical program in a non-graphical environment? If you wish, you could add firefox to your ~/.xinitrc or (? .Xresources ?) file, and then firefox would be called when you called "startx" to invoke X Windows. > 2) I thought Firefox wasn't going to start from the xterm, but really it > just took ages - far longer than I am used to with my old OS (same > machine). Is there something I am missing here too? I couldn't say. I've used firefox, and more often the entire Mozilla suite (which is now 'Seamonkey'). It probably starts slower and hangs more often than any other program I run on FreeBSD, (with the possible exception of the "xrayswarm" screen saver) but I can't say why or that I've even done much investigating. I did build a 'debug' version of Seamonkey last time, but I've not yet done anything with it. FWIW, it seems a tad less prone to some of the behavior I saw with Mozilla (which seems strange, perhaps). Of course, I use it heavily, so perhaps that characterization is flawed. Kevin Kinsey
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