Re: [Pan-users] Opening Pan in X

[Jeff Vian]

Will Oram wrote:

> > On Thu, 20 Nov, 2003 at 22:43 +0100, Will Oram wrote:
> >
> > > spamguy:~ spamguy$ pan
> > > (pan:8602): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
> >
> >
> > Have you actually set your DISPLAY? What does 'echo $DISPLAY' return?
>
>
> Interesting...it returns nothing. Of course, with all the moving 
> between good system and bad system, I easily left some file like this 
> out.
>
> What should it be? And how would I change it?
>
> Thanks. I didn't want to pin the problem on Pan, but it was Pan giving 
> the error, so...

Pan gives the error because it REQUIRES that you have X running.
You have been asked if you are running X, and as yet I have not seen 
your answer.

You do not have to be running Xwindows to /install/ pan, but you must 
have it active to start pan.

As previously suggested,  if you are only running the login terminal 
window, and X is not running, try using "startx".
If that does not work you may not even have X installed/configured. 
That would be a separate issue not related to pan, but a requisite for 
pan to function.