[Pkg-xbmc-maintainers] Bug#673794: xbmc: Please recommend `xserver`

[Balint Reczey]

tags 673794 wonfix
severity 673794 wishlist
thanks

Hi Paul,

On 05/21/2012 03:42 PM, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Package: xbmc
> Version: 2:11.0~git20120510.82388d5-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Debian folks,
> 
> 
> after `aptitude install xbmc` on a new system I get the following error
> message.
> 
>         $ xbmc
>         Error: unable to open display
>         FEH.py: cannot connect to X server
> 
> Could you please recommend `xserver`? Otherwise XBMC as installed by
> will not be usable for most of the users who do not use terminal
> clients.
You can use a remote xserver, thus recommended would be too close
dependency IMO.
Moreover it would not prevent anyone from installing an X server and
starting a graphical application from console which seemed to happen in
the reported case.

Depending on a login manager OTOH would be too much again, so I think it
is already easy enough to figure out that an X server is needed to start
XBMC.

Thanks,
Balint



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