From: jerry@example.invalid   
      
   bad sector  wrote:   
   > On Thu, 15 Sep 2022 00:59:22 +0000, bad sector wrote:   
   >   
   >> On booting into the Slaclware-15.0 login prompt I get   
   >>   
   >> "Error: Can't open display"   
   >> "Error: Can't open display"   
   >>   
   >> What display is this referencing?   
   >> (NB. no-one has logged-in at this point)   
   >   
   >   
   > My apologies for having mislead all the well-meaning   
   > and helpful group regulars!   
   >   
   > The event rises BETWEEN login and doing 'startx'. My   
   > Slackware installation is the only one that permits   
   > me to log in without any graphics being started. I   
   > also noticed that the command prompt (otherwise set   
   > to show current path) was showing where it had last   
   > been directed:   
   >   
   > cd /0/dx/homes/0Link/bashers-linked   
   >   
   > in file ~/.profile to execute some custom utilities,   
   > such as   
   >   
   > /0/dx/homes/0Link/bashers-linked/my-xeyes-plasma.bsh   
   >   
   > and this IS an X issue and gets executed BETWEEN login   
   > and doing startx. Once I commented it out the error   
   > message vanished.   
   >   
   > Arises a secondary problem nonetheless. As I'm tinkering   
   > with cannibalizing 7 distros so that all of them use the   
   > same   ~/.profile   this leaves me without starting xeyes   
   > in other distros also configured for Plasma (distros set   
   > up for XFCE have xeyes in the panel as provided for).   
   >   
   > So for now I've taken out the comment sign and will   
   > live with the error message pending a better a way   
   > to manage things. Ideally I would point /home/userMe   
   > to the same single /mnt/somedata/userMe2Link directory   
   > but that's farther down the road. For now I'm just   
   > linking piecemeal those files that can be linked without   
   > the risk of being burned at the stake and excommunicated.   
      
   Test if $DISPLAY is set before calling xeyes:   
   [ -n "$DISPLAY" ] &&   
   /0/dx/homes/0Link/bashers-linked/my-xeyes-plasma.bsh   
      
   $DISPLAY isn't set in a terminal session.   
      
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