On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 08:26:50AM +0100, bagarnx_at_worldonline.se wrote:
> Hi. I tried to start fvwm, but there was an error message:;
> 'cannot open display'.
>
> I know it's not much, but I'm a new linux-user, so I would appreciate any help.
>
> I'm using redhat 7.1 with kernel 2.4.5
>
Possible problems:
- no X server started
How did you log in?
What did you execute in order to start fvwm?
- X server is started by another user, that user did not allow
"actions" on the X server
How did you log in?
What did you execute in order to start fvwm?
Are there other users logged in? If yes, how?
- DISPLAY environment variable with wrong contents
Try echo $DISPLAY to check that
- ...
HTH
Frank
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Received on Thu Jul 05 2001 - 03:26:10 BST