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Re: gv: Unable to open the display
On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Alex Vinokur wrote:
> "Igor Pechtchanski" wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
> >
> > > >>>>> Alex Vinokur writes:
> > >
> > > > $ gv -v
> > > > gv: Unable to open the display
> >
> > That's because the DISPLAY variable is not set correctly. For a default X
> > invocation (no display number on the command line), DISPLAY should be
> > ":0.0".
> >
> > > > $ cygcheck -sr | grep ghost
> > > > ghostscript-base 7.05-2
> > > > ghostscript-x11 7.05-2
> > >
> > > > Also:
> > > > $ which -a gs
> > > > /usr/local/bin/gs
> > > > /usr/bin/gs
> > > > /bin/gs
> > > > /usr/bin/gs
> > > > /usr/X11R6/bin/gs
> > >
> > > Make sure /usr/X11R6/bin/gs is first in your path.
> >
> > Good advice in any case.
> > Igor
> [snip]
>
> Some changes have be done.
>
> $ which gs
> /usr/X11R6/bin/gs
>
> $ set | grep DISP
> DISPLAY=:0.0
>
> $ gs zzz.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 `:0.0'.
> **** Unable to open the initial device, quitting.
>
> Something else?
Yeah. Run X? ;-)
Igor
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