Firefox which I have installed it by this:Welcome! Could you be more explicit? What application (package) are you trying to run and how did you install it?
pkg install firefox
as the handbook says.I installed xwindow but I don't know how to run it. I installed Firefox and xwindow only as I installed FreeBSD today.For a quick experience open a terminal like xterm and do
> firefox &
If your window manager has a command line feature you can do it there.
For more comfort you have to edit the menu of your window manager then you can use your mouse to start programs.
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For a quick experience open a terminal like xterm and do
> firefox &
If your window manager has a command line feature you can do it there.
For more comfort you have to edit the menu of your window manager then you can use your mouse to start programs.
#firefox &
(process :763) :glib-critical **: g_slice_set_config: assertion ' sys_page_size ==0' failed
Error : no display specified
I think you should read the Handbook at least until chapter 8. By reading it, you would have learnt that X (and Firefox) is not meant to be used with the root user. This is why you're are getting this error. Take your time, and read the documentation from the site, this is one of the very good aspects of this project.what should I do?
Error : no display specified
From a X terminal:The error has nothing to do that the program possibly was run as root.
$ su -
Password:
# firefox
Error: no display specified
# exit
$ firefox
$
Probably because you became root by usingI do not have this error when starting Firefox as root via su
su
and not su -
, so $DISPLAY was already set from your user account.I don't log in with root.I think you should read the Handbook at least until chapter 8. By reading it, you would have learnt that X (and Firefox) is not meant to be used with the root user. This is why you're are getting this error. Take your time, and read the documentation from the site, this is one of the very good aspects of this project.
If you don't feel like it, which is understandable as it's a lot of reading, you'd better choose another system that do most of the work for you, otherwise you are going to stumble over many problems like this one.