Bug 7379 – Python needs DISPLAY environment var set b/4 tkinter works

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Bug 7379 - Python needs DISPLAY environment var set b/4 tkinter works

Summary:	Python needs DISPLAY environment var set b/4 tkinter works

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	python (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.0
Hardware:	All Linux

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Assigned To:	Michael K. Johnson
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Reported:	1999-11-27 15:57 EST by ddmeyer
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	1999-11-30 11:00:53 EST
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Description ddmeyer 1999-11-27 15:57:53 EST

When I attempt to do a simple Hello World type example of using python and
tkinter (from the "Learning Python" book), I get an abort due to "no
display name or DISPLAY environment varible not set".  Since there's
nothing in the Python book, or on any tkinter web page I could find, about
this DISPLAY variable, it seems that it should be a standard assignment of
some sort.  What is missing from my configuration?

To reproduce:

python
>>>  from tkinter import *
>>>  w = Button(text="Hello World!", command='exit')

Comment 1 Riley H Williams 1999-11-28 17:50:59 EST

It's a variable that's set automatically if you're running in an xterm window,
and the usual reason for it not being set is that you're not running in an xterm
window. Are you?

Comment 2 Michael K. Johnson 1999-11-30 11:00:59 EST

tkinter only runs under X.  If DISPLAY isn't set, it's because you
aren't running X.  Run X.  The manual explains how to do that.

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