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From: charlesr@cftnet.com
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Subject: Unable to  run  fvwm .  Program  cannot c  'Display'.
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>Number:         4716
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       Unable to  run  fvwm .  Program  cannot open  'Display'.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
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>Class:          support
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Oct  6 19:10:01 PDT 1997
>Closed-Date:    Mon Oct 6 20:58:51 PDT 1997
>Last-Modified:  Tue Oct  7 00:30:01 PDT 1997
>Originator:     Charles Reynolds
>Release:        2.2.2
>Organization:
Peace Mountain  Computer Service
>Environment:
>Description:
After installing  2.2.2 and  configuring X11 stuff, I tried to run some
of the windows managers, in particular fvwm. The error message I  get is
the manager cannot open the display. I cannot find a sample of the
command line arguments. The man pages only say "display". I tried to
use a several combinations of items in the XF85... config file. But still
come up empty.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: jkh 
State-Changed-When: Mon Oct 6 20:58:51 PDT 1997 
State-Changed-Why:  
This is likely not a problem with fvwm so much as the user 
not starting X with the proper scripts.  "man startx" and 
go from there. 

From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To: charlesr@cftnet.com
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/4716: Unable to  run  fvwm .  Program  cannot open  'Display'.
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 08:56:25 +0200

 As charlesr@cftnet.com wrote:
 
 > After installing  2.2.2 and  configuring X11 stuff, I tried to run some
 > of the windows managers, in particular fvwm. The error message I  get is
 > the manager cannot open the display.
 
 Well, then you most likely don't have your $DISPLAY set correctly (for
 whatever reason, you didn't tell us much about your exact steps how to
 start fvwm, or even the X server at all).
 
 This looks like something to be asked on freebsd-questions@freebsd.org,
 but not like a valid bug report.
 
 -- 
 cheers, J"org
 
 joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
 Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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