Re: Display issues

[Brant Wells <dafyre@nlamerica.com>]

Howdy :)


You need to start up a   xterm  session after you run startx.  Do this by going into
your $HOME/.xinitrc file and add a line in there somewhere before your window manager
(usually the last line) to the effect of

xterm&

and then try to run those programs after you get into X.

HTH,.
Brant


André Bell wrote:

> Everytime I run anything from the command line that requires x I get one of
> these errors:
>
>    - unable to open display
>    - cannot connect to X server
>
> I can run startx just fine. I don't get display errors there at all.  But
> if I type xhost, xtv, or any other x application from the command line I
> get one of the above error messages.
>
> I've changed my xf86config file several times to select vga and svga
> displays as well as cycled through the cards, and still I get those errors.
> Maybe the display errors are unrelated to xf86config setup(?).
>
> Any ideas how I can get these applications to run from the command line
> without those error messages popping up?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Andre
>
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