Re: texmacs does not launch in cygwin

[david at adboyd dot com (J. David Boyd)]

"Abuzer Bakis" <abakis@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi everybody,
>
>   I am using cygwin on XP on a DELL inspiron portable computer. When I
>  launch "texmacs" on cygwin command editor I get the following message:
>
>   Fatal error: I failed to connect to Xserver in
> 'x_display_rep::x_display_rep'
>
>
> In the texmacs web page, it is said that:
>
>  If you get an error message including the following:
>
>  Fatal error: I failed to connect to Xserver in
>  'x_display_rep::x_display_rep
>
>  then execute "export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:10.0" on the remote machine and make
> sure your /etc/hosts file is sound, i.e. it contains the line "127.0.0.1
> localhost" and "the IP information about the local and remote machine".
>
>  In my /etc/hosts file I do not have "the IP information about the
> local and remote  machine".
>

Are you running the Cygwin X-Server on your machine?

There is a startxwin.bat file (mine is C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\startxwin.bat),
that I call to start the x-server.

Then TeXmacs and LyX all work great, as well as emacs, xemacs, etc...

Dave


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