Hello, In the Message; Subject : Re: Need help with a laptop that will only run Plasma/Wayland Message-ID : <ad85133e-c59c-4d07-9207-8c076c83dc98@marcchamberlin.com> Date & Time: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 00:50:27 -0700 [MC] == Marc Chamberlin via openSUSE Users <users@lists.opensuse.org> has written: [...] MN> > Anyway, this is all I can think of; MN> > export DISPLAY=$(ip address | grep “4” | head -1 | awk '{print $NF}' | awk 'sub(/\r$/,"")'):0 MC> This incantation doesn't seem to work, and produces a null string. I tried to MC> break this command down and execute it in partial commands broken at each MC> pipe. I found one error, the quotes around the 4 are wrong, I think. So I MC> changed it and tried this partial command - marc@marcslaptop:~> ip address | grep "4" MC> link/ether 38:d5:47:31:54:0f brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff MC> inet 192.168.10.10/24brd 192.168.10.255 scope global eth0 MC> link/ether e4:a7:a0:46:83:e0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff [..] marc@marcslaptop:~> ip address | grep "net" | head -1 | awk '{print $NF}' MC> lo MC> Now I am outside of my comfort zone, I am not a user of awk so this is out of my MC> league! Taking this to the last step produces a null string - marc@marcslaptop:~> ip address | grep "net" | head -1 | awk '{print $NF}' | awk MC> 'sub(/\r$/,"")' MC> marc@marcslaptop:~> I'm Tumbleweed, but like this; $ export DISPLAY=$(ip address | grep “4” | head -1 | awk '{print $NF}' | awk 'sub(/\r$/,"")'):0 $ echo $DISPLAY :0 $ export DISPLAY= $ echo $DISPLAY then, $ export DISPLAY=$(ip address | grep “net” | head -1 | awk '{print $NF}' | awk 'sub(/\r$/,"")'):0 $ echo $DISPALY :0 I think the problem is around the X server? What the result of; 1. $ ps -ef | grep Xorg and 2. $ ls -l /tmp/.X11-unix Test 2 might return nil though.... Best Regards. --- ┏━━┓彡 Masaru Nomiya mail-to: nomiya @ lake.dti.ne.jp ┃＼／彡 ┗━━┛ "Microsoft is overhauling its cybersecurity strategy, called the Secure Future Initiative, to incorporate key security features into its core set of technology platforms and cloud services. " -- Microsoft overhauls cyber strategy to finally embrace security by default --