[SOLVED] dwm: cannot open display

early_adopter · 2024-09-10 21:12:36

After a

pacman -Syu

and no other changes,

dwm

doesn't start and gives a

dwm: cannot open display

Anyone tips what it could be?

Last edited by early_adopter (2024-09-11 06:13:16)

Trilby · 2024-09-10 21:28:40

How are you trying to start it (startx/xinit, DM, etc)?

early_adopter · 2024-09-10 21:32:44

Via gdm and an xsession file pared back to just the dwm command

Trilby · 2024-09-10 21:52:36

Well that's an odd combination - I cant help with GDM, but you could narrow down where the problem is by trying to start other WMs via GDM and by trying to start dwm with startx.

seth · 2024-09-11 05:38:58

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Displa … figuration
And the AUR package ships https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/ … ktop?h=dwm

Head_on_a_Stick · 2024-09-11 05:47:07

early_adopter wrote:

Via gdm and an xsession file pared back to just the dwm command

I've done that :-)

Please share the xsession file. I preferred to call a script that ran dwm with the associated programs for the full desktop, it worked well.

early_adopter · 2024-09-11 06:12:53

After some searching I found the problem. It wasn't dwm itself.

My dwm starts a terminal. The termcmd I have is urxvt. My urxvt uses the Perl extensions and was trying to load a libperl.so from a directory with a version that no longer existed after the pacman update. Reinstalling urxvt solved it.

More details here https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=256928

Thanks to all who helped with suggestions.

seth · 2024-09-11 06:17:32

:colbertemoji:

The only way I can see this causing the original message is if urxvt actually is the session keeping process, it fails to start, the X11 server terminates and when you're trying to start dwm it cannot reach X11 anymore.

early_adopter · 2024-09-11 08:01:04

That was exactly the issue, the uxrvt was the session-keeping process so when it couldn't find the .so it failed and took dwm down with it.

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[SOLVED] dwm: cannot open display

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