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To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>

Subject: Re: Running GUI applications from GNOME terminal

From: Johnathan Bailes <johnathan.bailes@xxxxxxxxx>

Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:02:41 -0500

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On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 15:57:30 +0100, Marcin Szarek
<marcin.szarek@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Some programs don't start when invoking from GNOME terminal. The output
> says that the program "cannot open display". My $DISPLAY equals ':0.0'.
> What should I do to be able to run for example Oracle Universal
> Installer from terminal?
> 
> TIA
> 

Exit out from root back to whatever user you started as.

Run this from the command line:

xhost+

Now su - back to root.

Run:

export DISPLAY=:0.0

Now run the installer and you should be fine.