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Re: Re: Cannot Run X Programs
- From: Matt Morrow <myemailis at verizon dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: myemailis at verizon dot net
- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 17:32:42 -0500 (CDT)
- Subject: Re: Re: Cannot Run X Programs
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- Reply-to: myemailis at verizon dot net
Jon,
Wow.
That worked!
I had been beating my head against the wall!
Thanks so much.
Blessings,
Matt
myemailis@verizon.net
(703) 795-9224 (c)
On 03/24/16, Jon Turney<jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> wrote:
On 24/03/2016 20:10, Matt Morrow wrote:
> I'm on Windows 10 running:
> CYGWIN_NT-6.2 HOME 2.4.1(0.293/5/3) 2016-01-24 11:26 x86_64 Cygwin
>
> I cannot run X programs like xclock or xterm.
> With xclock I get this (depending on how I have $DISPLAY set):
> Error: Can't open display: HOME:0
> Error: Can't open display: HOME:0.0
> Error: Can't open display: localhost:0
> Error: Can't open display: localhost:0.0
> Error: Can't open display: 192.168.1.7:0
> Error: Can't open display: 192.168.1.7:0.0
>
[...]
>
>
> Any ideas what's wrong?
Did you try DISPLAY=:0.0?
http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-xserver-nolisten-tcp-default
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Jon TURNEY
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