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  donraja
  09-09-2006 12:33 AM
  Display problems running the system-config-printer tool
  I have a Pentium 4 machine running Fedora Core 4 and I'm trying to configure a printer on my box. I tried running the system-config-printer tool only to get this output:
  [root@blah roger]# system-config-printer
  Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
  Xlib: No protocol specified
  ImportError: could not import gtk
  Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
  Xlib: No protocol specified
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/system-config-printer", line 9, in ?
  import queueTree
  File "/usr/share/printconf/util/queueTree.py", line 71, in ?
  import gtk
  File "/usr/src/build/535819-i386/install/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 37, in ?
  RuntimeError: could not open display
  Does anyone know what's going on here ? I'm a newbie and would appreciate any help I can get in getting through this part (getting my system-config-printer tool to display).
  Thanks in advance.
  donraja
  09-17-2006 09:01 PM
  Additional info...
  It seems like any X-based tool that I run or anything that requires gtk+, I cannot run. I've been looking for a gui based wifi config tool and I cannot run any of them because of this problem that I have that I haven't been able to solve yet. Any help would be appreciated.
  [root@blah roger]# system-config-network
  Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
  Xlib: No protocol specified
  ERROR: Unable to initialize graphical environment. Most likely cause of failure is that the tool was not run using a graphical environment. Please either start your graphical user interface or set your DISPLAY variable.
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