can't open display

Configuration General Questions
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When I want to start fvwm2 in the command prompt, I get the error:

[fvwm][main]: <> can’t open display sysadmin1:0.0

I also tried ‘fvwm2 -f /root/.fvwm2rc -d sysadmin1:0.0 -s’ -> this also didn’t work

I also tried to put the ‘setenv DISPLAY sysadmin1:0.0’ line in the .fvwm2rc file, this also didn’t work.

I made a .xinitrc file with in it the line ‘fvwm2 &’ -> when I try a startx, I get the following error:

Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server

Waiting for X server to shut down

, but I’m in run level 3, and the X server hasn’t even started yet.

FYI I use: Red Hat 7.2 with both KDE and Gnome installed, and this with fvwm version 2.5.23

Any Ideas?

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You have to actually start applications as the user that’s already opened to the display. But your problem extends before that because you probably don’t even have a display open, or one is already open with some sort of display manager, for instance.

Your best bet is to tail -f /var/log/Xorg.0.log to see what’s going on.

– Thomas Adam

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I guess Red Hat 7.2 works with XFree so…look at /var/log/XFree.n.log

don’t know wheather the current fvwm will work because of some specific dependencies?