Pierre Watelet wrote:
> I have installed linux (Suse) on my 5500, but i can't launch X nor
> Kde due to a display="" I look thru all the parameters with Yast and
> Yast 2 but i don't find where to assign a value to this.
Quick answer: That's just a shell variable; in bash (which you're probably using),
type export DISPLAY=":0.0". That should work fine. FWIW, you can put a host name in
front of the colon there to make your X programs display their windows on another
machine, provided that the machine has an X server running and will let you talk to
it.. but that's probably too much info right now anyway. :)
Here's the catch: just setting the DISPLAY variable does not enable you to run X apps;
you need to run an X server first. Try typing 'startx' (minus the quotes). It might
even start up kde for you. (I don't use SuSE Linux, so I don't know how it's set up.)
If it doesn't, you can always exit whatever it is that's running (in a pinch,
Ctrl+Alt+Backspace(Delete) will do it, but try to exit normally first), and do the
following:
1) Go into your home directory. cd ~ will do that.
2) Type "cat > .xinitrc" (minus the quotes).
3) Type #!/bin/sh
4) Type startkde
5) Hit Ctrl+C and type startx again. KDE ought to start.
Of course, if you type startx and KDE comes up, you're all set. :)
HTH
mrg
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