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Re: "Cannot open display" or XDMCP problem ?
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: "Cannot open display" or XDMCP problem ?
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 16:25:48 -0400
- Cc: Enoch Wu <ewu at eskimo dot com>, "Robert, Francois" <francois dot robert at it dot unisys dot com>
- References: <DF0D9437684BD411803F00105AC586EA014E46D6@IT-MIL-EXCH-2> <20010410224521.B4013859@MELON>
- Reply-To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:45:21PM -0700, Enoch Wu wrote:
>Hey my friend. Check your environment variable OS. Is it empty?
>If not, export OS="" in .bashrc. After that restart cygwin and
>run startxwin.bat from bash.
I missed this particular "solution" to this problem.
Who is actually using this "OS" environment variable? Cygwin certainly
isn't using it. Is the X Server using it? If so, it is not a very
reliable method for determining OS type.
Apologies if this has all already been explained. Feel free to ignore
me, if so.
cgf