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PrometheusDrake
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 12:32 pm    Post subject: Error when trying to start Enlightenment Reply with quote

Hi, i've been using Gentoo for some weeks now, and have up until now been able to find answers to any problem either here, or by Google. This last problem though, i havent been able to find either place.

I emerged enlightenment DR17 a couple of days ago, but when I type "enlightenment-0.17", I get the following output:

Code:

WARNING: not a utf8 locale!
_______                     _______
|:::::| Enlightenment Error |:::::|
~~~~~~~                     ~~~~~~~
Enlightenment cannot initialize its X connection.
Have you set your DISPLAY variable?
E17: Begin shutdown procedure!


The Xorg log file holds no errors.

After searching Google for "set display variable" , I've tried "export DISPLAY="localhost:0" and putting "DISPLAY="localhost:0" in rc.conf, but to no avail. (I've tried other numbers than 0 as well, but no dice)
The only difference from before i set the variable, is that it takes a few more seconds before the message shows up.

I am running both KDE and xfce4.2 successfully, though, if that means anything...
If anyone could give me a hint here, I'd be very grateful.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 2:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Edit your .xinitrc and add in
Code:
exec enlightenment-0.17

and then do try startx from shell
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 4:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It works! Thanks a bunch!

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