unable to open the display on local machine

[Klemens Meyer]

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daniel43@gmx.ch wrote:
| Hello,
|
| I have installed cygwin localy on a W2K PC.
| I have installed the package ghostview, using the setup.exe utility.
| Now, if I try to start ghostview, I type:
| $ gv &
| I get the error message:
| gv: Unable to open the display.

Do you have installed and started X-Windows?
If not you should do that before starting gv.

| I tried to set the DISPLAY variable:
| $setenv DISPLAY localhost:0.0
| But the setenv command is not known.
| So I tried with set:
| $set DISPLAY localhost:0.0
| But this does not seem to do anything.
| When I echo the variable DISPLAY:
| $echo $DISPLAY
| I just get a blank line.

Cygwin uses the bash shell as default. In bash setting a variable
is done this way:

	export DISPLAY="localhost:0.0"

Klemens
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