Re: For First-Time Users of X-Server

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

I am betting Thomas did mean "gnome-terminal", the GNOME virtual
terminal application.  It's similar to xterm, but it is accessible (with
of course the usual bug disclaimer) 

I think you can launch any X application from another console, provided
you set the $DISPLAY environment variable to point to your
currently-running X server's display, and your userid is the same one
that launched the X server (or has otherwise been granted permission to
access the display in question).

- Bill



On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 03:22, Toby Fisher wrote:
> On Tue, 27 May 2003, Thomas D. Ward wrote:
> 
> > Hi, I launch the Open Office application from with in gnome terminal.
> > You can't do it from a regular shell prompt.
> > Hth.
> 
> Hmmm, do you mean an xterm?
> If so, that is currently inaccessible, or seems so, which is why I wanted
> to try installing from the consol.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
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