The other day I installed the packages for Openbox on OpenBSD. I tried starting it from the command-line as a normal user with "openbox-session" and got the following error:
Code:
Openbox-Message: Failed to open the display from the DISPLAY environment variable.
I looked online and saw that setting the DISPLAY variable like this has fixed this problem for others:
Code:
DISPLAY=:0.0 openbox-session &
However, the same error still persists when I try to start OpenBox. I saw the variable wasn't remaining set, so I tried exporting it, but the same thing happens:
Code:
$ export DISPLAY=":0.0 openbox-session &"
$ echo $DISPLAY
:0.0 openbox-session &
$ openbox-session
Openbox-Message: Failed to open the display from the DISPLAY environment variable.
I looked online and saw that setting the DISPLAY variable like this has fixed this problem for others:
Code:
DISPLAY=:0.0 openbox-session &
This is a misunderstanding on your side. The DISPLAY variables content should probably be ":0.0" and what you see is a command where it is set this way, then started openbox in the background with this setting. Therefore:
Code:
$ export DISPLAY=":0.0 openbox-session &"
This is complete nonsense. If you want the DISPLAY variable to be ":0.0" (which means "use the local displays first screen for displaying your content") you should do it this way:
Code:
$ export DISPLAY=":0.0"
$ openbox-session &
The real problem, though, might not be addressed yet and you might want to read up about X-Windows concepts to get a picture of what your problem is. My suspicion is that either no X-Server is running on your machine or that it is running but simply forbids other sources to use it. Issue "xhost +" as the user under which the X-Server runs to disable access control and then try again. You will still have to set the DISPLAY variable to tell the openbox-application which X-Server to use.
For a (very very short) introduction to X-Windows concepts you might want to read this.
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Bakunin's suggestions did get me thinking though. I tried starting X in the background and then starting OpenBox:
Code:
$ xinit &
X.Org X Server 1.12.3
Release Date: 2012-07-09
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: OpenBSD 5.3 i386
Current Operating System: OpenBSD leviathan.my.domain 5.3 GENERIC.MP#58 i386
Build Date: 27 February 2013 04:00:52PM
Current version of pixman: 0.28.0
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sun Jan 19 03:25:26 2014
(==) Using system config directory "/usr/X11R6/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
mtrr set d5000000 e00000 failed: Invalid argument
Code:
$ openbox-session
Obt-Message: Xinerama extension is not present on the server
which: hsetroot: Command not found.
which: esetroot: Command not found.
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