RE: Unable to connect to X Server -- Updated

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

I assume in his startxwin.bat file he is missing :0

he needs 

xterm :0
and twm :0

to display on local screen 0.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Collins [mailto:robert.collins@itdomain.com.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 4:53 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; Giridharan Iyengar
> Subject: Re: Unable to connect to X Server -- Updated
> 
> 
> what does route print show?
> 
> Rob
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Giridharan Iyengar" <giyengar@us.ibm.com>
> To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 8:16 AM
> Subject: Unable to connect to X Server -- Updated
> 
> 
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >                  I am able to start the x server successfully on
> >                  my win2k laptop but I am unable to get xterms
> >                  or twm connect to the display. I tried reducing the
> >                  resolution and bit depth and still no luck.
> >
> >                  I checked that I have TCP/IP connectivity and even
> >                  tried setting the DISPLAY to my ip address
> >                  instead of 127.0.0.1.
> >
> >                  I can ping any of these addresses but the xterm
> >                  comes back with a message that it is unable to
> connect
> >                  to display. Noticed that a couple of 
> people reported
> >                  similar problem but could find no resolution for it
> in
> >                  the FAQs.
> >
> >                  Xterm comes back with Xt: Unable to connect to
> display
> > 127.0.0.1:0.
> >                  Same thing with twm.
> >
> >                  After mucking around for some time, I tried the
> following.
> >                  I connected to a remote machine and launched twm
> >                  and an xterm in the remote machine setting the
> DISPLAY as
> >                  my local win2k laptop's ip address:0. This 
> seemed to
> work
> >                  just fine and I could connect to the Xfree 
> server on
> my
> > laptop.
> >
> >                  I also ran Exceed on my local machine and used the
> xterm
> >                  that came with XFree to connect to the 
> Exceed server.
> > Again,
> >                  the xterm comes back with a message that 
> it is unable
> to
> > connect
> >                  to display as before.
> >
> >                  Any pointers?
> >                  Thanks,
> >
> >
> > -giri
> >
> >
>