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carolsantos
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 Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2019 10:29 pm Post subject: Cannot open DISPLAY |
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I have a problem starting i3 window manager on my Gentoo recentely installed. Every time I run the command i3, a message shows saying the DISPLAY Is not set or it doesn't exist, I don't remember. The same occurs with the xrandr, with it saying it cannot open display.
In Arch Linux, I use export DISPLAY=:0.0 before running the WM command and it works. In Gentoo, it doesn't work...
I have RADEON graphics with ATI and I believe I've had enabled the needed options in kernel to have a X environment, like Event Interface.
How may I solve this problem?
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mike155
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Hi carolsantos,
welcome to the Gentoo forums!
Please read https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/I3, especially section "Starting". There's no need to start i3 manually. People usually run "startx" and that will start the X server and i3.
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carolsantos
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| Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 12:18 am Post subject: |
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| mike155 wrote: | Hi carolsantos,
welcome to the Gentoo forums!
Please read https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/I3, especially section "Starting". There's no need to start i3 manually. People usually run "startx" and that will start the X server and i3.
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Hello, mike155!
Well, I've always followed the wiki, including the i3 section. I have installed the WM following that page.
The command I use to start i3 is only "i3". |
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mike155
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Where do you run 'i3'? In the text console after you log in? In a xterm terminal window? Is the X server up and running when you run 'i3'?
The X server must be up and running before you can run commands like i3, xrandr or xeyes. Otherwise you will get the "cannot open DISPLAY" error message. |
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carolsantos
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| Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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| mike155 wrote: | Where do you run 'i3'? In the text console after you log in? In a xterm terminal window? Is the X server up and running when you run 'i3'?
The X server must be up and running before you can run commands like i3, xrandr or xeyes. Otherwise you will get the "cannot open DISPLAY" error message. |
I solved the problem installing packages like xorg-drivers, xorg-x11 and xorg-server.
However, thank you for trying to help me! |
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