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Re: PC monitor is freezing, but I can ssh into it and operate okay



On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 04:14:58PM +0100, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 09:01:19AM -0600, Tom Browder wrote:

[...]

> >      unable to open display ""
> 
> This one is because they have to "talk" to the right X server, so they
> need the DISPLAY env variable set, to know which one.
> 
> On your (probably) single machine with (probably) just one X server
> and one display, try prefixing the command with a var setting like
> so:
> 
>   DISPLAY=:0 <my command with args>

(of course, this will only work if there /is/ an X server running
in the first place :)

Cheers
-- 
t

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