Re: FVWM: [themes] can't open DISPLAY

From: Jason Kibblewhite <jkibble_at_telusplanet.net>
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 16:44:50 -0600

On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 10:50:47PM +0000, Nikolaj G. wrote:
> export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0
> export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
> export DISPLAY=localhost:0
> export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
>
> [FVWM][main]: <<error>> Can't open DISPLAY 127.0.0.1:0
>

Frankly Alex I'm ashamed at you replying to this lad and not only giving
advice that clearly doesn't work but not actually seeing the problem
that he is running fvwm-themes-start and not startx as he is supposed
to. You've hung out in #linuxhelp long enough you pick up on things
like this right away :).

Anyway the the problem is that the script fvwm-themes-start doesn't
actually start up X which it is trying to connect to, you have to start
up X then start fvwm and all it's tools, simplest way to do that is
place fvwm-themes-start in a file in your home dir called .xinitrc,
something like pico ~/.xinitrc will open it, then place

exec fvwm-themes-start

and when you type startx it should run

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