xterm fails after update cygwin

Jon TURNEY jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Wed Apr 8 17:13:00 GMT 2015


On 08/04/2015 00:01, tmacchant wrote:
> I have been able to X without problem before cygwin update.
>
>  From mintty window
> *****************************************
> $ xterm &
> [1] 4740
>
> $ xterm: Xt error: Can't open display: 127.0.0.1:0.0
> *****************************************
>
> What am I wrong for X?
> ******************************************************
>
> Is the above related to the below?
>
> Xorg server always starting up on DISPLAY 3.0
> http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/Xorg-server-always-starting-up-on-DISPLAY-3-0-td117063.html

[1] seem more likely to be relevant

i.e. you should write DISPLAY=:0.0 rather than DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0

[1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-03/msg00240.html

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