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Re: Unable to open display or run xterm
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 23:24:04 -0400
- Subject: Re: Unable to open display or run xterm
- References: <465F8929.7050201@frii.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 08:49:13PM -0600, Glen Robinson wrote:
>I did a chmd on /tmp/.X11-unix and got X "kind of" up. i.e., I have a
>screen and a cursor and alt tab will move me in and out of Windows XP
>windows/apps. I can't get an xterm running and when I right click on
>the X icon in the system tray and 'exit' the submenu that comes up says
>that 0 processes are running. Attempting to launch an xterm from a
>cygwin window with "DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 && xterm &" fails with a
>message that it couldn't open the display.
You're not setting DISPLAY correctly. Try:
DISPLAY=:0 xterm&
The && does not make any sense for what you are trying to do.
cgf
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