can not read pdf files

[goude]

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Hi everyone,

I upgraded to FC17 and since then I can not read pdfs.

The acroread command gives me the following error:
(acroread:638: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

acroread version 9.5.1

Can you please help me? Any suggestions?

Many thanks

[CaptainDangeax]

Hi. You should give more information. How do you try to launch acroread ? From terminal ? Via SSH ? Thru Alt+F2 ? Via the start menu (sorry for this one...) ?

[goude]

From terminal
acroread <filename.pdf>

[CaptainDangeax]

Did you try only

user@machine ~ $ acroread

with no filename ?
Did you try to launch acroread from clickodrome menu ?

[goude]

export DISPLAY=:0.0

Fixed it for me.
Thanks a lot for your replies.