Re: Cannot open display problem?

[Enoch Wu <ewu at eskimo dot com>]

Hi,

On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 10:04:07PM -0700, Patrick Hung wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I am still getting "cannot open display" error message with Windows ME when I use xterm, xhost, ...  As described by others, I can run xterm, twm, etc. from the other machines (Sun, Windows 98, etc.) but not from the local host (Windows ME).  I am using cygwin1.dll from 4/14 snapshot and 4/14 xfree binaries.  X is started with the following command.
>  
>     start XWin -engine 1 -screen 0 1024x768x16 -ac
>  
> Patrick

Why don't you try my bb.bat file, attached. If you don't use blackbox
window manager, change that line to twm or whatever you want.

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@echo off
SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
SET PATH=.;%PATH%;\cygwin\bin;\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin
SET XFCE_DATA=\cygwin\usr\X11R6\var\xfce
start XWin -screen 0 1024x768x16 -whitepixel 255 -blackpixel 0
start xterm  -sb -sl 2048 -font 7x13bold -sb -rightbar -ms red -fg yellow -bg black -e bash
start rxvt -fn 7x13bold -e bash
start blackbox
@echo on

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