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I installed Domino 8 recently on SuSE Linux 10, and encountered a similar error message when trying to start the Domino configuration utility:
"please edit your shell's DISPLAY environment..."
I realized the problem was not Domino specific, because from the "notes" user, I could not run xclock, even after setting the DISPLAY variable and running "xhost +" as root.
For me, the problem was a bad "notes" user. I had created the user with the command "useradd notes", which does not create a home directory for the notes user. Without this directory and some of the configuration files it needs, X Windows would not work.
I deleted and recreated the user with "useradd -m notes", and a home directory with several default configuration files was created. After exporting the DISPLAY variable ("export DISPLAY=:0.0"), the configuration utility now starts successfully.
Hope this helps.
Feedback response number WEBB7GDHX6 created by ~Fred Dwofanazenli on 07/09/2008
getting past DISPLAY problems
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