From: Collins Richey <erichey2@home.com>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] kde er4ror with xsetroot
Date: Tue May 8 05:15:01 2001 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010508052241.34318626.erichey2@home.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3AF76763.D865783B@gentoo.org>
On Tue, 08 May 2001 05:26:27 +0200 AGottinger@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger) wrote:
> Collins Richey wrote:
> >
> > I installed kde with emerge kde-base ... which brought in kde-libs and other
> > stuff.
> >
> > When I try to run it, it complains that xsetroot and other x... complain that
> > display = '' and they die without starting the xserver (root or user
> > environment). Same restults with
> > startkde
> > or
> > echo kde >.wm
> > startx
>
> Hmm, that sounds like your xfree installation has problems. It is really
> strange that stuff works here and no other user reported such problems.
> Try ebuild xfree-4.0.3-r3 clean unmerge merge.
> >
done - no change in behavior. Where does the $DISPLAY variable get set on a normal system (required by startkde)?
--
Collins Richey
temp setup on gentoo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-08 11:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-07 21:43 [gentoo-dev] kde er4ror with xsetroot Collins Richey
2001-05-07 21:56 ` Achim Gottinger
2001-05-08 5:15 ` Collins Richey [this message]
2001-05-10 0:50 ` Achim Gottinger
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2001-05-09 2:56 michael nazaroff
2001-05-09 6:36 ` Karl Haines
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