unable to open display

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 12 May 2006, Collins Richey wrote:
> On 5/11/06, Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 11 May 2006, Collins Richey wrote:
> > > How does one coax some #$@! software into opening an X display? Most
> > > of the time, xhost + or xhost +localhost as normal user and export
> > > DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 will do it, but not with the seamonkey
> > > installer.
> >
> > Is this RH?
> >
> > All you should need is:
> > export DISPLAY=:0
> >
> > what exactly is going wrong for you?
> >
>
> I tried that as well. The Seamonkley installer each time quit with a
> GTK message "unable to open display." So, I punted and downloaded the
> tarball that doesn't use the installer. Working fine now.

Perhaps your DISPLAY wasn't :0 ?

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