;claws-mail' installs, but won't run

[Dushan Mitrovich]

Scott Webster wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Dushan Mitrovich<dushanm at spinn.net>  wrote:
>    
>> Scott Webster wrote:
>>      
>>> Can you launch other X11 apps?
>>>
>>>        
>> Yes, I can run gnuplot.  From Octave if I ask for a plot with no X11 running
>> I get the messages
>>
>>    gnuplot: unable to open display ':0.0'
>>    gnuplot: X11 aborted.
>>
>> but then a plot shows up and X11 is running.  If I then do another plot,
>> the messages are gone and the appropriate plot shows up.
>>      
> I get the RANDR warning with other programs too, so I think this is a
> different problem.  If you aren't using&  to run it as a background
> task then it sounds like it is just quitting right off the bat.
>    

That makes sense.  Now what do I do to determine the problem?  I've 
looked for
a logfile, but didn't find one, probably because I didn't know where to 
look..

- Dushan