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RE: Unable to connect to X Server -- Updated
- To: "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: Unable to connect to X Server -- Updated
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 16:47:23 -0500
Can you post a copy of your startxwin.nat file?
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Giridharan Iyengar [mailto:giyengar@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 4:17 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Unable to connect to X Server -- Updated
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am able to start the x server successfully on
> my win2k laptop but I am unable to get xterms
> or twm connect to the display. I tried reducing the
> resolution and bit depth and still no luck.
>
> I checked that I have TCP/IP connectivity and even
> tried setting the DISPLAY to my ip address
> instead of 127.0.0.1.
>
> I can ping any of these addresses but the xterm
> comes back with a message that it is unable
> to connect
> to display. Noticed that a couple of people reported
> similar problem but could find no resolution
> for it in
> the FAQs.
>
> Xterm comes back with Xt: Unable to connect
> to display
> 127.0.0.1:0.
> Same thing with twm.
>
> After mucking around for some time, I tried
> the following.
> I connected to a remote machine and launched twm
> and an xterm in the remote machine setting
> the DISPLAY as
> my local win2k laptop's ip address:0. This
> seemed to work
> just fine and I could connect to the Xfree
> server on my
> laptop.
>
> I also ran Exceed on my local machine and
> used the xterm
> that came with XFree to connect to the Exceed server.
> Again,
> the xterm comes back with a message that it
> is unable to
> connect
> to display as before.
>
> Any pointers?
> Thanks,
>
>
> -giri
>