fluxbox

Nils Kassube kassube at gmx.net
Sat Nov 29 10:40:07 UTC 2008


Loïc Grenié wrote:
>     What "command line" are you talking about ? 

I mean the command line you get with CTRL-ALT-F1 etc.

> If it is a command-line 
> inside an Xterm, Konsole, Console or whatever running under fluxbox,
> you should not have any problem. 

I agree, but obviously Donny isn't using a terminal program because the 
DISPLAY variable isn't set.

> If the command-line is a console 
> (obtained by Ctrl-Alt-F1) then the DISPLAY variable is not set. You can
> start firefox in that case by
>
> DISPLAY=:0 firefox -p
>
>   or
>
> export DISPLAY=:0
> firefox -p

That should work if X is running but then you still can't see anything of 
firefox because you are still at the command line.


Nils




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