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Re: running xterm in cygwin


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


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