Display Problems with Xorg and Openbox
 

I am trying to run Openbox, but whenever I type openbox or openbox-session, it comes up with this error:

Openbox-Message: Failed to open the display from the DISPLAY environment variable.

I looked around, and most people say that you need to install xorg. I already have it installed, and I am still getting that error. I get similar errors whenever I try to use awesome and gnome-session. All of them say they can't open the display. (side-note: I am running Arch Linux.)

I've been searching for a solution for quite some time, and I'm going to continue doing so, but I thought I might post to see if someone could save me some time.

Thanks,
blackstone

You either didn't installed the appropriate video driver or you didn't configure your xorg.conf correctly.

To list the available video drivers:
>pacman -Ss xf86-video

Pick your applicable driver and install.. using the ati open source drivers as an example:
>pacman -Sy xf86-video-ati

For a hardware detection tool, install hwd:
>pacman -S hwd

To automatically generate an xorg.conf, run hwd:
>hwd -xa

If you already did all of this and don't know how to manually write a functional xorg.conf file from scratch, I suggest starting with a less hands-on distribution or at least copying an xorg.conf from one of them.

Thanks for the suggestions. I have it working now.