Re: [wmii] wmiiwm: cannot open display

Thanks a lot, it works fine now.

sqweek wrote:
>> I would like to understand what I am doing wrong, I do not know very
>> much about the way X11 works.
>>
>
> It goes like this: First, you start the X server. Then, you start the
> X clients. Then, you get the women- err, then you're done. The X
> server takes the display it should listen on as its argument, so...
>
> ; Xorg :1&
> ; DISPLAY=:1 wmii
>
> Note that this is basically what the startx script does. But startx
> doesn't look up PATH and needs you to seperate client options and
> server options with a --. ie:
>
> ; startx /usr/local/bin/wmii -- :1
>
Received on Wed Oct 03 2007 - 11:04:46 UTC