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Re: Missing X server or $DISPLAY

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Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> writes:
> Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> writes:
>> On 2025-07-31, Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>>> Using a search engine, I found a hint suggesting to set the DISPLAY
>>> variable with
>>> export DISPLAY=$(cat /etc/resolv.conf | grep nameserver | awk '{print
>>> $2; exit;}'):0.0
>>> and another one suggesting
>>> export DISPLAY=unix:0.0
>>>
>>> Neither of those helped.

>> I use GNOME, not KDE, and have not had such a problem.
>> But when I oipen a terminal window to display the DISPLAY environment
>> variable, the value is just ":0"
>> So try     " export DISPLAY=:0 "

> That didn't help either. Error message from seamonkey was
> Error: cannot open display: :0

I also tried exiting kde and restarting it, and that didn't help.
But when I rebooted the system, both seamonkey and brave work again, so
the problem seems to have disappeared.
And now, in a Konsole window, echo $DISPLAY shows
:0

-- 
Jukka Lahtinen

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Missing X server or $DISPLAY Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2025-08-01 01:36 +0300
  Re: Missing X server or $DISPLAY Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> - 2025-07-31 23:07 +0000
    Re: Missing X server or $DISPLAY Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2025-08-01 09:50 +0300
      Re: Missing X server or $DISPLAY Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2025-08-01 11:21 +0300

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