Re: FVWM: FVWM Can't Open Display

From: <bluesman_at_byteme.no>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 06:16:22 +0100

On Friday 04 March 2005 04:08, Ron wrote:
> I have read all the faq's and such but no one seems to have such a basic
> problem as mine.
> Now that I have established my level of expertise here is my problem.
> fvwm2, mwm and twm all error with "Can't Open Display 127.00.1.00.
> Using 'startx' the Xwin opens a X window OK.
> I have tried setting the DISPLAY to :0.0 but fvwm2 still issues the same
> error message.
> Any help?

I'm not sure, but it looks like you don't have X running. If that is the case,
then the simplest way of doing it is putting "exec fvwm2" in ~/.xinitrc
(`echo "exec fvwm2" > ~/.xinitrc), then execute startx as user. That should
bring up fvwm2 when X starts.

Hope that helps.
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Received on Thu Mar 03 2005 - 23:17:46 GMT

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