Re: xdisplay not found by x clients

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

  after you run startx you should see X desktop on the screen. use
window manager's menus (or launchpad or whatever) to run programs, run
xterm (or other terminal emulation program) to get command line (that's
where you can start other programs from, the ones you do not find in
menu)

  generally, there is no reason to execute commands from the same
virtual console where you started X from. It is possible though:

  export DISPLAY=':0' # for sh, bash, ...
  setend DISPLAY ':0' # for csh, tcsh, ...
  xterm
  oclock
  xterm &   # if you want to get the command line back
  ...

  or:

  xterm -display :0
  oclock -display :0
  other_X_program -display :0

	erik

Simon Harvey wrote:
> 
> i have just installed X on my laptop, it first loaded up fine, but then when i started x using startx and xsession, it flashed up with a messsage
> 'Cant find display ""'
> is there some sort of enviromental variable that has to be set manually because the installation dosent set it?
> can somebody please help me.
> simon
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