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Re: Unable to open the display
- From: Benjamin Riefenstahl <Benjamin dot Riefenstahl at epost dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 17:30:50 +0200
- Subject: Re: Unable to open the display
- References: <cj8dmt$kr2$1@sea.gmane.org> <cj8hcf$so4$1@sea.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Hi Alex,
"Alex Vinokur" writes:
> $ /usr/X11R6/bin/gs foo.tex
> GNU Ghostscript 7.05 (2002-04-22)
> Copyright (C) 2002 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved.
> This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
> GNU Ghostscript 7.05: Cannot open X display `(null)'.
> **** Unable to open the initial device, quitting.
Start your application from a running xterm, or use the -display
option of gs and gv, or set the DISPLAY environment variable. See
man X for details.
benny