On Tue, 08 May 2001 05:26:27 +0200 AGottinger@... (Achim Gottinger) wrote:

> Collins Richey wrote:
> > 
> > I installed kde with emerge kde-base ... which brought in kde-libs and other
> > stuff.
> > 
> > When I try to run it, it complains that xsetroot and other x... complain that
> > display = '' and they die without starting the xserver (root or user
> > environment).  Same restults with
> >         startkde
> >           or
> >         echo kde >.wm
> >         startx
> 
> Hmm, that sounds like your xfree installation has problems. It is really
> strange that stuff works here and no other user reported such problems.
> Try ebuild xfree-4.0.3-r3 clean unmerge merge.
> > 

done - no change in behavior.  Where does the $DISPLAY variable get set on a normal system (required by startkde)?


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Collins Richey
temp setup on gentoo