Anu,

ctrl-alt-f1 doesn't open the t= erminal, it changes the virtual terminal you are seeing on your screen from= the one running X to one running a login shell. What Thomas meant was that= you need to do export DISPLAY=3D:0 before trying to run plasmashell. on th= e vt that x is running on that environment variable is set, but on the vt1 = shell it's not, so it doesn't know to run plasmashell on the other = vt which has DISPLAY :0.

BR,

Jeremy

On Thu, De= c 18, 2014 at 12:40 PM, anu mittal <anu22mittal@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Thomus,
Yes Ctrl+alt+f1 opens= the terminal.

Have tried
export DISPLAY=3D:0

But it isn&= #39;t effective,nothing changed.

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014, 8:31 PM=C2=A0Thomas L= =C3=BCbking <thomas.luebking@gmail.com> wrote:
On Donnerstag, 18. Dezember 2014 15:03:55 CEST, anu mittal wrote:
> i got this message
>
> QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display
> Aborted

> - opening a konsole

Does this mean "VT1" (ctrl+alt+f1)?
-> first enter
export DISPLAY=3D:0

Cheers,
Thomas

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