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

[shaleh@clifford.livenet.net]

> 
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> Thank you
> I installed gqview after first installing the proper
> libs, and once it installed without dependancy
> problems, attempted to use it.
> The following commands:
> gqview
> gqview <filename>
> gqview -h
> gqview --help
> All resulted in this error:
> <blank line>
> ** WARNING **: cannot open display:
> <return to bash prompt>
> Is there some conf file I need to configure?  And if
> so, where?  The docs offered no help.

gqview must be run from X by the user running X (like any other X based app).
It appears that you were trying to run this as either

a) not the user who started X
b) from the console