setenv DISPLAY :0 works! Thank you! what I had before in the $DISPLAY variable was "$DISPLAY= computername:0" Do you know why taking away the computer name would work? Just want to know more. Thanks!
On Thursday 12 May 2005 16:23, Adriaan de Groot wrote: > On Thu, 12 May 2005, Raphael Fan wrote: > > I need to run a program that would open up > > a screen in KDE. However, the shell keep > > saying the display can't be opened. > > echo $DISPLAY > > in the shell; if nothing is set, then your > environment is being damaged -- by _something_ > -- while or after starting KDE. You can work > around it by probably doing: > > export DISPLAY=:0 > > (or, in csh, setenv DISPLAY :0 ) _______________________________________________ kde-freebsd mailing list [email protected] http://freebsd.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd
