Re: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

[Howell Evans <gevans1@utk.edu>]

It seems to me that your are missing the gnome-common libs. there are 
few gnome packages you MUST have if you wish to run gtk apps. i *think* 
if you apt-get install gnome-common your probs will go away, but i havnt 
thought about this in a very long time.

cheers
-howell

ZekeVarg wrote:

> I'm running X as a user. QT programs works just fine.
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> Zeke
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> > IIRC, the display is not set by default for root.  If you are
> > trying to do this as root you need to set the display manually,
> > or better yet, start X as a regular user, not root, and then
> > only use root when you absolutely have to.  Of course I'm assuming
> > you're actually trying to use the program under X and not at the
> > console.
> >
> > Regards
> > --
> > Kourosh <debian@mindwaresystems.com>
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