Hello, On Sat, 31 Oct 2009, David C. Rankin wrote: [..]

Enlightenment cannot connect to the display nominated by your shell's DISPLAY environment variable.

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At 03:12:34 on Sunday Sunday 01 November 2009, "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote: Top posting is best in this case. After over a month since you posted about your tribulations in installing it, can I ask you for your impressions about Enlightenment? And if you think it is a decent substitute for KDE4, to which I have developed an aversion? (I do not, by the way, seem to be the only one.) You mentioned the you built Enlightenment from the source. Why, since v0.16 is available through YsST? Can I ask you, without undue invasion into the time you fritter away on you day job, ask you for what you see as plusses and minusses of this windows manager? And, oh, yes, can you tell me what is the meaning of "Nacogdoches"? And what, if anything is one "Nacogdoche" ( or perhaps one "Nacogdoch")? Presumably this must be a Nahuatl word, or something similar, probably filtered through Spanish and then English corruptions.

Guys,

I have built enlightenment from source but I cannot get it to start. The packages were built with --prefix=/usr/local so the binaries are in /usr/local/e16/bin and I have added /usr/local/e16/bin to my PATH. I have tried to start it from runlevel 3 and from runlevel 5 after a CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE to drop to the command line. The problem is that I get a DISPLAY variable error on start. I have set:

DISPLAY=':0' DISPLAY=':0.0'

and I still get the following error:

Enlightenment cannot connect to the display nominated by your shell's DISPLAY environment variable. You may set this variable to indicate which display name Enlightenment is to connect to. It may be that you do not have an Xserver already running to serve that Display connection, or that you do not have permission to connect to that display. Please make sure all is correct before trying again. Run an Xserver by running xdm or startx first, or contact your local system administrator, or Xserver vendor, or read the X, xdm and startx manual pages before proceeding.

I know this should be simple, thus the (brainless moment) but what's the trick??

After picking through xdm-config, Xsetup, Xstartup, Xresources, Xsession, and Xservers files, I though in the towel and just decided to ask :-(

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