On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 23:27:56 +0100 KMcLauchlan <kevinmcl@magma.ca> wrote:
Hello all.
In a previous context, I mentioned that --perhaps associated with a locking screen-saver becoming active in the middle of a BIG apt-get update (my first big one, ever) -- the system had locked beyond my ability to get X going again. So I had performed a shutdown from console. When I re-started, I no longer had KDE3 or GNOME... I was dumped into WindowManager, with no kdm or gdm opportunity to select another desktop mangler.
Anyway, I ran SuSEconfig, and everything seemed to go ok except the following section:
[...] I tried running Synaptic just now, but I get the following result: schmoo@linux:~> sux - Password: linux:~ # synaptic Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Protocol not supported by server Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 If I get this while staring at a WindowMaker screen, am I not already using X and the first device controlled by X?? I thought that's what display: :0.0 was all about. So, what do these errors really mean? I tried looking at the X config files again, but I don't understand why (when I have only one video adapter and a single screen) the :0.0 display would NOT be the one that I, and X, and WindowManager were already using. Explain, in small words, for the dummy, please. /kevin