On Sat, Dec 25, 1999 at 08:01:04PM -0500, Scott Felton wrote:
> I've decided to start a new search for the "ultimate" mail client now
mutt. ( I like it )
> I find nothing in the man page for bash about DISPLAY. In the man page
> for xterm, I find the DISPLAY env variable mentioned but nothing about
> what it should be set to (and I have no clue why mine is set to
> nothing). If I type "echo $DISPLAY" at my prompt (as root) I just get
> another prompt, ie. an empty string.
in an xterm as the user who's running X, type:
xhost +localhost
then as root, type:
export DISPLAY=:0.0
and that will fix the display problems, It's possible that the wm
problem just came from the fact that the $DISPLAY was failing...
dunno.. I'll look into it more
have fun
greg
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