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RE: Cannot open display problem?
- To: cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: RE: Cannot open display problem?
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 06:44:35 -0400
Try starting xterm from a bash shell, after starting xwin.
You may have more messages then only "cannot open display".
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Hung [mailto:hung@Umunhum.Stanford.EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 1:04 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Cannot open display problem?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am still getting "cannot open display" error message with
> Windows ME when I use xterm, xhost, ... As described by
> others, I can run xterm, twm, etc. from the other machines
> (Sun, Windows 98, etc.) but not from the local host (Windows
> ME). I am using cygwin1.dll from 4/14 snapshot and 4/14
> xfree binaries. X is started with the following command.
>
> start XWin -engine 1 -screen 0 1024x768x16 -ac
>
> Please ignore this message if you are still working on this problem.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Patrick
>