Cannot open display

[Suhaib Siddiqi]

>From Cygwin bash shell if you type

Export DISPLAT=127.0.0.1:0.0
Then
XWin -screen 0 1024x768x16 -whitepixel 255 -blackpixel 0 -engine -4&

Does Xserver starts? If not post the exact error messages, please.

Suhaib



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gert Bartholomeeusen [ mailto:gert.bartholomeeusen@eng.ox.ac.uk ]
> Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 3:22 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Cannot open display
> 
> Dear Cygwin People,
> 	I have trouble getting the xfree86 to work with Cygwin.  I followed
> the
> installation instructions through
> ( http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/howto/cygwin-xfree-ug.html )  When I come
> to the 'startxwin.bat' I get 'Can't open display'.  (Clicking the batch
> file made a couple DOS-boxes flash up and off)
> 	I tried start XWin first and afterwards an Xterm
> $ XWin -screen 0 1024x768x16 -whitepixel 255 -blackpixel 0 -engine -4
> <Screen Output>
> $ xterm Xt error: Can't open display:
> 
> 	Changing SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 to my ip-address did not help.
> 	What can I test next?
> 			Thanks,
> 				Gert