Re: problems

Hi;

on Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 09:54:19PM -0700, Joey Prewett wrote:
> 
> I'm new, so I know less than nothing about matchbox,
> but I've read a lot and I'm enthusiastic about it. 
> Its a much needed entity in the linux world.  I
> downloaded matchbox to my desktop just to try it out
> before I run out and buy a new toy to install it on. 
> I logged in to the console of my machine and ran
> matchbox-window-manager, but it failed saying that I
> needed to chech my DISPLAY variable.  So, I did a echo
> $DISPLAY and the output was blank.  I'm running Ubuntu
> 5.04.  Someone want to help a newbie out?
> 

You just want to 'export DISPLAY=:0' before running mb.

  -- Matthew