From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 18 13:51:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E89416A40A for ; Thu, 18 May 2006 13:51:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A84343D4C for ; Thu, 18 May 2006 13:51:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k4IDp9aD031116; Thu, 18 May 2006 08:51:10 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <446C7BC8.6010608@daleco.biz> Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 08:51:04 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060509 SeaMonkey/1.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Barnaby Scott References: <446A2C57.3080401@waywood.co.uk> <446A38B2.20606@daleco.biz> <446A3F04.9090506@waywood.co.uk> <200605171441.49907.lists@jnielsen.net> <446C574A.5090904@waywood.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <446C574A.5090904@waywood.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: John Nielsen , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gtk-Warning **: Cannot open display X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 13:51:14 -0000 Barnaby Scott wrote: > So now I can strat Firefox from an xterm, but 2 things still puzzle me > though: > 1) Forgive my stupidity, but why can I not start Firefox from the > console? Or rather, what could I do to make it do so with a single command? I'm perfectly willing to be wrong, flamed, and corrected, but my counter question (and it seems a good one to me): how do you expect to run a graphical program in a non-graphical environment? If you wish, you could add firefox to your ~/.xinitrc or (? .Xresources ?) file, and then firefox would be called when you called "startx" to invoke X Windows. > 2) I thought Firefox wasn't going to start from the xterm, but really it > just took ages - far longer than I am used to with my old OS (same > machine). Is there something I am missing here too? I couldn't say. I've used firefox, and more often the entire Mozilla suite (which is now 'Seamonkey'). It probably starts slower and hangs more often than any other program I run on FreeBSD, (with the possible exception of the "xrayswarm" screen saver) but I can't say why or that I've even done much investigating. I did build a 'debug' version of Seamonkey last time, but I've not yet done anything with it. FWIW, it seems a tad less prone to some of the behavior I saw with Mozilla (which seems strange, perhaps). Of course, I use it heavily, so perhaps that characterization is flawed. Kevin Kinsey