-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 09:57:12AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
[...] > I just did "apt-get install xorg". > Now typing "startx" at command line does give me a fvwm screen. So fvwm is running already (more below) > However typing "fvwm" at command line gives > >[fvwm][main] <<ERROR>> can't open display You are trying to start it off a console not "in" X? This won't work -- fvwm needs (as every X application) to know which X server to talk to. This is usually done via the DISPLAY environment variable. So to start fvwm you would have either to start it from "whithin" the X session (e.g. from an XTerm running in there, or more typically from an X session init script) or you'd have to provide the "display" address yourself. The canonical way of doing that is that X invokes a session init script (in your trusty debian somewhere /etc/X11/Xsession, which collects bits and pieces in /etc/X11/Xsession.d -- therein 50x11-common_determine-startup should be doing the window manager magic for you. So that's probably why X "does give me a fvwm screen" above, if I got you correctly. > What's still to be installed/configured? > Would this be a bug against the fvwm package for not installing and > configuring xorg? All should be well (or I misunderstood you) Cheers - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlqQR80ACgkQBcgs9XrR2kauNQCggJWzWudyCiVdrTZ3BZL+3eGl 2ikAoIHgJByHyanoAMWnssJTne906BFr =d1q8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
