I've never used X before...grown to love the command line ;) I didn't have X cranked up...don't even know how to do that. I just entered "poedit" at the command line and assumed X would kick in. Should I start X? How? TIA, Victor
On Dec 14, 2007 3:50 PM, Lowell Gilbert < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Victor Subervi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi; > > I installed poedit from the port on 5.5. I didn't have X11 before, so it > > took a very_long_time. Once installed, I tried to fire it up: > > # poedit > > Error: Unable to initialize gtk, is DISPLAY set properly? > > What do? > > I don't know the program, but it looks like it only runs inside of X, > so you need to have X actually running when you start it. Was this > the case? If so, did you check what DISPLAY was set to? > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
