[NCLUG] No desktop manager

[Charles Clarke]

To do xhost +, you need to have X-windows running.  
If it is running, you need your DISPLAY variable set to something(most
likely :0.0)
DISPLAY=:0.0
export DISPLAY

or
setenv DISPLAY :0.0

depending on the type of shell you have

charles

On 24 Apr 2001, Judy Lujan wrote:

> Date: 24 Apr 2001 09:51:25 MDT
> From: Judy Lujan <j-lujan at usa.net>
> Reply-To: nclug at nclug.org
> To: nclug at nclug.org
> Subject: [NCLUG] No desktop manager
> 
> Oh God, this is embarrassing. 
> 
> You know how I've been complaining that I couldn't get my terminal emulator to
> work? Well, it's because I have no desktop manager. I just finished my
> internship and took my computer in on the last day for some help and some
> downloads. (Fast connection there.) I asked our resident Linux guru to look at
> my machine and see if he could figure out what was wrong. On opening Gnome he
> exclaimed "You have no desktop manager!" I had known that my desktop at home
> looked, well, *different* from my desktop at work, but had chalked it up to
> the fact that my home distro is Debian and at work we use RedHat. As I had
> (another embarrassing confession) *forgotten to bring my serial mouse* (old
> computer, what can I say?) and there were none at work, we were trying to
> correct this using only a keyboard. This was not successful. He told me to go
> home, log in as root, and type:
> 
> xhost +
> 
> and then to type:
> 
> sawfish&
> 
> and to scroll down and do the Sawfish config. Well, I did that - or at least
> tried to. Logged in as root, I typed:
> 
> xhost + 
> 
> and got:
> 
> unable to open display ""
> 
> I looked at that a minute and plowed ahead with:
> 
> sawfish&
> 
> and got:
> 
> can't open display ""
> 
> So - does anybody have any ideas as to how I can correct this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Judy
> 
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