Attila Konietzka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:34:08PM +0200, Mario Lang wrote: >> From your description it seems you did not set the $DISPLAY variable >> correctly. Normal consoles do not have the DISPLAY variable set, since >> they are not opened from within X Windows. You should probably >> try and do something like: >> # export DISPLAY=:0.0 >> # gnopernicus > > Well i did what you told but still the same errors including also: > xlib: no protocol specified
Could you please post the complete output you get when launching Gnopernicus? It is rather hard to figure out what is going on by just seeing a single error message without any context. > and other such messages. Is there anything i can do with the alt+f7 console? > maybe logging in blind and then do something via alt+fa? or is the > gnome-desktop not loaded at this moment? You should check that the default window manager is set to metacity. You can check this by executing # update-alternatives --display x-window-manager If it does not say something like "Current `best' version is /usr/bin/metacity." you can do something like # update-alternatives --config x-window-manager and select metacity. I'd also suggest you try without xdm first, i.e., do not start xdm at boot time, and start the X Window System by hand on some virtual console. You could for instance login as root, and invoke # startx & After some time if X starts OK, it should automatically switch to tty7 (you may hear a click from your monitor). Now switch back to the console where you invoked startx (Ctrl+Alt+Fn), and examine the output from startx. It may produce some warnings, some of them are probably not really fatal. If it seems like the X server started OK, set the DISPLAY variable as described in my previous mail, and invoke gnopernicus. -- CYa, Mario | Debian Developer <URL:http://debian.org/> | Get my public key via finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 1024D/7FC1A0854909BCCDBE6C102DDFFC022A6B113E44
