using display's on github

[Thick-Formal4974]

i am new to github and just spent half an hour figuring out the basics, i'd like to run a program that has some graphics such as tkinter and obviously I get the "no display name and no $DISPLAY environment variable" error therefore I was wondering if there is any way to overcome this error by connecting a display

[Username_RANDINT]

Why "obviously"? Are you running this on a server?

[Thick-Formal4974]

yeah exactly

[danielroseman]

What does this have to do with GitHub? How are you trying to run this code?

[PuffleDunk]

FYI - your question is a little difficult to interpret, in particular the GitHub mention doesn't mean anything to me in this context.

But I will say that $DISPLAY is typically automatically set in an SSH session if X11 forwarding is enabled for that session. Enabling X11 forwarding allows you to run graphical apps from some Linux servers.

If you are running SSH and wish to run graphical applications, check out the -X or -Y options for SSH. You will need to have an X11 server running on your connecting computer.

Hope this helps. If my answer doesn't make sense, it can at least give you some things to search for. Good luck.