Re: xdisplay not found by x clients

2000-10-26 Thread Erik Steffl
after you run startx you should see X desktop on the screen. use window manager's menus (or launchpad or whatever) to run programs, run xterm (or other terminal emulation program) to get command line (that's where you can start other programs from, the ones you do not find in menu) generally,

xdisplay not found by x clients

2000-10-26 Thread Simon Harvey
i have just installed X on my laptop, it first loaded up fine, but then when i started x using startx and xsession, it flashed up with a messsage 'Cant find display ""' is there some sort of enviromental variable that has to be set manually because the installation dosent set it? can somebody ple