On Wed, 12 May 1999, 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 You get those errors because X is not running. Hmmm, (since you don't want a window manager running) you could commment out fvwm (and everything else) in /etc/X11/window-managers... that will start up X and dump you into an xterm when you issue a startx command. - Bruce