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YawningAngel
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 Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 12:09 pm Post subject: Can't Start kde ($DISPLAY isnt set/can't connect to X server |
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My apologies for the abridged title, I wanted to get the full error message in. I recently installed gentoo on my PC, and it installed fine, but when I compiled kde and tried to run it (# startkde), I received the following error:
$DISPLAY is not set or cannot connect to the X server
I've googled it, but I haven't found anything thus far and I don't know what to do. |
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Stu_28
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| Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 2:08 pm Post subject: Re: Can't Start kde ($DISPLAY isnt set/can't connect to X se |
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| YawningAngel wrote: | | I've googled it, but I haven't found anything thus far and I don't know what to do. |
Search the forum perhaps...
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-840393.html |
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YawningAngel
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| Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 2:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Oops, sorry, I must have missed that. Thank you very much. |
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hedmo
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| Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 5:07 am Post subject: |
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set à new first line
exec startkde
In
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
and you are good to go  |
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Shakethecake
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| Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2013 5:12 pm Post subject: Re: Can't Start kde ($DISPLAY isnt set/can't connect to X se |
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| YawningAngel wrote: | My apologies for the abridged title, I wanted to get the full error message in. I recently installed gentoo on my PC, and it installed fine, but when I compiled kde and tried to run it (# startkde), I received the following error:
$DISPLAY is not set or cannot connect to the X server
I've googled it, but I haven't found anything thus far and I don't know what to do. |
Listhen to me, I tried this problem in Ubuntu simply was adding command "sudo apt-get install xinit", after I run "sudo startx" and my KDE has run. |
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monicajae
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Location: Dorset, VT
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| Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2013 1:04 am Post subject: |
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| hedmo wrote: | set à new first line
exec startkde
In
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
and you are good to go |
Yeah, you know what? that answer is completely meaningless to me. what the hell is that syntax because it shows up as non UTF or non english character. i have to read this in term because i have no desktop... |
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Chiitoo
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| Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2013 7:25 am Post subject: ><)))°€ |
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monicajae,
Not sure if you're referring to the à (it's an a with a ` (grave accent) on top of it).
Anyblue, the advice I guess might work globally, but as far as I understand, the more common and perhaps appropriate way to set exec startkde is at the user's home path, in the file:
As for the comment from Ubuntu, that's a bad idea. No, we do not run 'sudo startx', and neither should you, be you a bot or not. ^^;
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Kindest of regardses. |
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