gparted questions

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Dienstag, den 26.06.2018, 07:57 +0100 schrieb Colin Law:
> On 26 June 2018 at 05:36, Bob <ubuntu-qygzanxc at listemail.net> wrote:
> > 
> > ** Reply to message from Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> on Mon, 25
> > Jun 2018
> > 20:29:49 +0100
> > 
> > > 
> > > On 25 June 2018 at 18:54, Bob <ubuntu-qygzanxc at listemail.net>
> > > wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > (gpartedbin:3740): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0
> > > 
> > > Are you running Wayland?  You can select which to use at the
> > > login
> > > screen.  If so that may be the problem, try X instead.
> > I have seen these code names on this list but have no idea what
> > they mean.  I
> > am running Ubuntu 17.10 with no extra features.  I was under the
> > impression
> > that X was the standard GUI programming interface so I expect it to
> > be on my
> > system.  As you can tell I am not a long time linux user.
> On 17.10 I think Wayland may have been the default but this was
> changed for 18.10.  As I said you can switch from the login screen.
> Click the Icon near the login name. I haven't got a 17.10 system any
> more so can't remember exactly what it looks like.  If it is not
> obvious which to choose then ask again.

on a side note: it might also be that the livecd session actually
defaults to X11 instead of wayland ... for greater compatibility or
because the installer had no wayland support ... that would explain the
difference in behaviour between the installed 17.10 and the live system
... 

btw, the related bug was:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1713313

ciao
	oli
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