Re: FVWM: No Can not open display

From: Charles Hines <chuck_hines_at_VNET.IBM.COM>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 09:46:25 -0400

>>>>> "Andy" == Andy Hoover <upstate1_at_cris.com> writes:

Andy> I recently upgraded to FVWM2.0.x and am having most of my
Andy> programs tell me that they "can't open display:". What has
Andy> happened. Things were running just fine under 1.2x. However,
Andy> now when I drop back to the old version, I'm getting the same
Andy> messages.

Somehow your DISPLAY env var is getting set wrong. Chances are you
aren't letting startx or xinit set it correctly for you, but trying to
set it yourself in one of your shell startup scripts.

Chuck
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Received on Mon Jul 15 1996 - 08:50:14 BST

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