It looks that your DISPLAY environment variable isn't defined.
Another try:
- go to the menu item Applications->Customize... in the X11 application.
- add an "ethereal" item to the menu with command "exec /opt/local/bin/ethereal"
try launching ethereal from there.
On 5/23/05, Kim Young <repairs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I tried to run Ethereal from the command line and got this result:
>
> NetTechs-eMac:/dev kimy$ /sw/bin/ethereal
>
> (ethereal:16862): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
> NetTechs-eMac:/dev kimy$
>
> Any ideas?
>
> On May 21, 2005, at 10:35 PM, Guy Harris wrote:
>
> > LEGO wrote:
> >
> >> Try to execute /sw/bin/ethereal from the xterm (the terminal that
> >> opens as soon as you launch X) it might tell you something useful.
> >> ethereal might be trying to tell you something but not having a
> >> console you cannot read it.
> >>
> >
> > If the Fink package for Ethereal has some app launcher you can
> > double-click on, the standard output of Ethereal is probably sent
> > to console.log as is the case with other apps launched from the
> > GUI. Check out console.log in /Applications/Utilities/Console.app
> > (and be amazed at the amount of stuff various OS X apps spew out
> > there).
> >
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> Kim Young
> Network Technician
> Noble High School
> Berwick, ME 03906
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