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Why does hosting Lemmy require a display? (aussie.zone)

submitted 8 months ago by Grail@aussie.zone to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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I'm trying to set up my own Lemmy server with Docker. I think I have everything set up, but I'm getting an error Cannot autolaunch D-Bus without X11 $DISPLAY. This error kind of makes sense, because I'm SSHing into my server and have not forwarded D-Bus connections, so $DISPLAY is undefined. But why does a Lemmy server need a display in the first place? Is this a bug and a display isn't actually needed? If I set $DISPLAY to whatever, will it still run okay?

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[–] Grouchy@lemmy.grouchysysadmin.com 25 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like something is incorrect in your setup. Nothing Lemmy does requires x11, dbus, or any display technology.

[–] Grail@aussie.zone 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thanks. Do you know what I could have done wrong? I've looked through all the config files and there's nothing about a display in them, unless you count lemmy-ui

[–] Grouchy@lemmy.grouchysysadmin.com 4 points 8 months ago

No idea. Sorry.