About setting DISPLAY variable

Rex_chaos · 09-26-2003, 12:24 AM

hi all,
I have booted my RH7.2 in text mode. It fails to run a graphic-mode program in text mode and reports that I need to set the DISPLAY variable. How to set it?

UltimaGuy · 09-26-2003, 05:41 AM

You cannot run a graphics mode player in text mode. You have to have the Xserver running for you to enable running graphical programs. When you start XServer, the DISPLAY variable is automatically set.

linux_pioneer · 09-27-2003, 05:37 AM

Try startx to start running x server.

Rex_chaos · 09-27-2003, 05:42 AM

Yes. I am running X now. However, it stills demand me to set DISPLAY. It's really weird.

linux_pioneer · 09-29-2003, 01:24 AM

You can set the display variable $DISPLAY in your .profile file in your home directory. The name may differ depending what shell your using. I use bash so for me its .bash_profile.
Try adding this:
export DISPLAY="$IP:0.0"