pidgin not started

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Tuesday, May 07, 2013 a las 10:06:30AM +0400, dawliev escribió:

> Hello!
> # pidgin
> No protocol specified
> No protocol specified
> 
> (Pidgin:11582): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_display_get_name: assertion 
> `GDK_IS_DISPLAY (display)' failed
> Pidgin 2.10.3

Hi,

Was your X11 desktop started as user "root" (which would be a very bad
idea)? Please show the output of:

# env | fgrep DISPLAY
# xclock

and/or start the X11 desktop as normal user and launch pidgin as the
same ordinary user.

HIH

	matthias
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