Re: For First-Time Users of X-Server

["Thomas D. Ward" <tward1978 earthlink net>]

Hi, I launch the Open Office setup application from with in gnome terminal.
You can't do it from a regular shell prompt.
Hth.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Adam Myrow <amyrow midsouth rr com>
To: Toby Fisher <toby tjfisher co uk>
Cc: <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 6:14 PM
Subject: Re: For First-Time Users of X-Server


> Toby, I don't understand what you are trying to do.  You can't just start
> up X and then expect to log in on another console to run X applications.
> X applications have to run from the X session itself as far as I know.
> Now, if Open-Office has command line flags to do an automatic install, it
> may be possible to run it without X running, but it sure doesn't sound
> like it can do that.  You would start up X and then try to run the
> installer from Gnome.  If somebody knows otherwise, please correct me.
> This is how I understand it, though.
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