[RLUG] debian sarge / x / broken xterm

[Brian Chrisman]

To just test, if you are logged into a shell of some sort and have 
X-windows running, you can do: (in sh/bash)
DISPLAY=:0 xterm &
to launch it directly to your default display.
I'm not certain why your DISPLAY environment variable is not getting set 
though.


n a wrote:

> I don't know if it's just been a long day or if I'm retarded, but I 
> put Debian Sarge and X on two different laptops (a dell inspiron 4000 
> and a Toshiba Protege 320CT) and xterm doesn't work on either of them 
> because "DISPLAY is not set". X boots up fine but I can't get it to 
> _do_ anything without the xterm... Google gets me some other people's 
> problem's with ssh and x, and something to do with X and sudo that I 
> can't quite make out...
>
> Any bright ideas as to what I'm doing wrong or what to look for? Am I 
> overlooking something glaringly simple? (sorry I'm venting 
> away-from-laptop at the moment so I can't recall any useful contents 
> of the rc/conf files...)
>
> thanks
>
> Nick
>
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