Hi,
Have you started X? How are you loging in, through a X login interface
such as xdm or gdm, or are you loging in through a text prompt and typing
startx.
Tom
On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Al Wong wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have installed Linux 6.1 onto my Toshiba Satellite 2545XCDT
>laptop and decided I also wanted fvwm as my x-windows environment.
>I have successfully installed fvwm 2.2.4 onto the laptop.
>This is my first experience installing Linux and fvwm.
>Although I've had some Unix experience, I've never been
>a sys admin.
>
>I have looked through the /docs directory of the fvwm installation and
>searched through the archives of www.fvwm.org and I'm still stumped.
>
>I am using tcsh. I setup the display environment variable
>with the command:
>
> setenv DISPLAY :0.0
>
>(tcsh doesn't have an export command).
>
>When I try "fvwm" or "fvwm2", I get the error message:
>
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect : Can't connect : errno = 111
> [FVWM][main]: <<ERROR>> can't open display :0.0
>
>From this I can conclude either my laptop LCD display is not
>supported or I'm doing something wrong with setting up the
>display. What else do I need to do???
>
>Please be very specific in commands, filenames and directories
>as this is my first installation of Linux and fvwm.
>What may be "obvious" to you may not be obvious to me.
>
>(For example, it wasn't obvious to me you had to type
>"fvwm" or "fvwm2" to start up fvwm. It wasn't documented anywhere.
>These things "everyone knows" is not obvious for a Linux beginner
>like me.)
>
>Also, please reply to directly to me as I am NOT subscribed
>to your mailing list currently.
>
>Thanks,
>
> Al, awong_at_primenet.com
>
>
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Received on Sun Jun 25 2000 - 09:43:41 BST