dmacdoug wrote: > It is installed and I've tried running it from a shell. The man page > says it should be started without arguments, but when I do that it > says "Failed to parse arguments: Cannot open display:"
I get that message if the DISPLAY environment variable is not set, or if it's set incorrectly, when I start xfdesktop. Otherwise, running it from a shell works fine for me. Can you start other X-based applications, e.g., xclock, from the same shell? What is the output from echo $DISPLAY ? mike
