Subject: UNUSUBSCRIBE PLEASE
tincan@gate.net
Date: Sun Jan 21 2001 - 07:41:43 CST
At 06:52 AM 1/21/01 -0500, David Shochat wrote:
>Sounds like you're just trying to run it from a different user id than the
>one that is currently authorized with the X server. For example, if you
>su'd to root in order to do the install and then accidently tried to run
>from that root shell window. Although root can do almost anything, it
>cannot normally connect to someone else's X server by default.
>
>Just go into a shell ("terminal") window that you can start other X
>clients from (I often try xlogo to check) and start abiword from there.
>You could use 'xhost +', but that's probably a bad idea if your computer
>is connected to the Internet.
>-- David
>
>Paul C. Wiebelhaus wrote:
>
>>Tried several times to install abisuite-0.7.12.i386.rpm onto my SuSE 6.2
>>system. I got messages telling me it needed a newer version of glib and
>>gtk+. I tracked them down from their web site and installed them in the
>>order recommended.
>>I then tried installing abisuite. It gives the following message:
>> xset: unable to open display ""
>> gtk WARNING **:cannot open display
>> glib and gtk+ were installed via yast; I tried installing Abisuite via
>>command line rpm and yast. No joy.
>>Any suggestions?
>> Paul
>> Please bear in mind when offering suggestions that I am rather a newbie
>> at this... I'm still figuring out sybolic links.
>>
>
>
>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b25 : Sun Jan 21 2001 - 07:40:47 CST