Re: First-time Linux setup - questions
At 10:29 PM 11/9/98 -0500, Immanuel Yap wrote:
>On Sun Nov 8, 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote:
>> Someone pointed out correctly that I had to run ldconfig. What I figured
>> out for myself was that I had to add /usr/openwin/lib to the conf file
>> first.
>>
>> However, now I have a new problem:
>>
>> olvwm: cannot connect to (NULL DISPLAY)
>>
>> Now what? In UNIX, I would just type "setenv DISPLAY maui:0.0" and that
>> would be that. But LINUX does not use setenv? How do you set environment
>> variables in LINUX? I tried adding "DISPLAY=maui:0.0" to my .bash_profile
>> with no success. What am I missing?
>
>You need to be running an X server *before* you run the window
>manager. Assuming you have X11 properly configured, create a file
>~/.xsession and put this in it:
>
>#!/bin/bash
>xterm &
>exec olvwm
>
>(quick and dirty, but that will do). Then start X by typing 'startx'
>at the prompt.
Ah Ha! So, the usual package dependancies that apt takes care of
is not applicable to X? (startx is not found on my system, and I never
ran any configuration utility for X and I loaded the olvwm package with
apt-get.)
I take it that X must be loaded and configured separately from Debian? I
am aware of XFree86 and that there is something called XF86Config. Is this
what I need? Any particular installation procedure I should follow? Or
do I just hack my way through the FTP site?
>To answer your other question, the default Debian shell is bash, so to
>set an environment variable you need to say "export VARIABLE=value".
>setenv is a csh command.
Right. My UNIX experience is all csh. I tried this and now I see the
results I expect when I type 'printenv'. Thanks.
-Jerry
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