On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Fabrice Lhomme wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm new at Fvwm and after a long time trying to compile (wrong Imake
> configuration, gcc patch not applied,...) I have now Fvwm installed but
> I can't run it. Each time I have the message <<ERROR>> can't open
> display. I'm on a Sun Solaris 2.4 system and the name of my display is
> /dev/console. I tryed this and more but I can't find the right
> parameter. Could someone help me ?
>
> Thanks for help
> Fabrice Lhomme.
If I remember wright solaris on install, by default, wont let you start up
your own X server you have to let xdm do it for you
so what you do is change the line in your .xinitrc
that probably starts up openwindows to fvwm instead
Then when you are logining in the default is to cde you just switch to
openwindows and it runs xinit on your copy of .xinitrc
Hope this helps, the other option is to change the permissions on
/dev/console and a couple of others (as you fix one the next one pops up)
and then anyone can start up an X server from the console
Brad
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Received on Thu Nov 20 1997 - 12:55:05 GMT