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Re: running xterm in cygwin
- From: luke dot kendall at cisra dot canon dot com dot au
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 18:00:46 +1000 (EST)
- Subject: Re: running xterm in cygwin
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On 24 Sep, Leow Wee Kheng wrote:
> I installed Cygwin/X in my WinXP PC.
> But, it has problem opening the X display.
> I've set the display to my PC's host name
> using "export DISPLAY=leowwk-1" but it still
> doesn't work. Any idea what's the problem?
You shouldn't need to set it explicitly, unless you're running it from
a command outside X (e.g. from a DOS prompt), and even then it should
only need to be set to ":0.0".
You have remembered to actually start X first, haven't you?
Experiment by starting X (use "startx" or run xinit directly).
Check out /tmp/XWin.log to see if any errors are reported.
luke