To just test, if you are logged into a shell of some sort and have
X-windows running, you can do: (in sh/bash)
DISPLAY=:0 xterm &
to launch it directly to your default display.
I'm not certain why your DISPLAY environment variable is not getting set
though.
n a wrote:
I don't know if it's just been a long day or if I'm retarded, but I
put Debian Sarge and X on two different laptops (a dell inspiron 4000
and a Toshiba Protege 320CT) and xterm doesn't work on either of them
because "DISPLAY is not set". X boots up fine but I can't get it to
_do_ anything without the xterm... Google gets me some other people's
problem's with ssh and x, and something to do with X and sudo that I
can't quite make out...
Any bright ideas as to what I'm doing wrong or what to look for? Am I
overlooking something glaringly simple? (sorry I'm venting
away-from-laptop at the moment so I can't recall any useful contents
of the rc/conf files...)
thanks
Nick
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