On 2008-10-30, Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 03:53:52AM -0700, gaurav kashyap wrote: >> HI, >> I am getting the following error: >> >> konsole: cannot connect to X server >> >> do i need to install the related files. > > Maybe, but given that error message, probably not. > > You would do yourself a great favor by providing a lot more detail > about what you are trying to do... On a Unix/Linux system, unlike > Windows, there is no one single "shell prompt window" -- there are > lots of them.
There are both lots of "shell prompt windows" (which, I assume means terminal emulators), and lots of shells and other programs you can run in such a window. > They all need the X Window System (a suite of software which > provides a GUI interface to Unix systems -- it's not "built > in" like it is in Windows). X works as a client-server model, > and you need to make sure X authentication is handled > properly. Depending on what you are doing, this can be either > very easy, or very complicated. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! This PORCUPINE knows at his ZIPCODE ... And he has visi.com "VISA"!! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list