Re: gqview error: ** WARNING **: cannot open display:

[Martin Bialasinski <martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de>]

>> "DS" == Dan Smith <dyson_sphere_explorer@yahoo.com> writes:

DS> All resulted in this error: <blank line> ** WARNING **: cannot
DS> open display: <return to bash prompt>

You try to start it as root, but you use X as another user? Only the
user opening the X display may use it by default.

Try running gqview as this user. If you want to be able to start X
programms as root, install ssh from non-us, and switch identity with
ssh -l root localhost.

Ciao,
	Martin