Re: Cannot open display problem?

["Patrick Hung" <hung at arithmetic dot stanford dot edu>]

I tried out startx from the cygwin bash prompt and get "descriptor is file,
not socket" error message.  I think there's a similar thread in the cygwin
mailing list.  Not sure if they are related...

Here's the output:

> startx
_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows 95/98/Me
winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed
winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed
winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 00000007
winSetEngine () - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking
winCreateBoundingWIndowWindowed () - WindowClient width 640 height 480
winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Masks 000f800 000007e0 0000001f RGB 6 d 16
winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Returning

waiting for X server to begin accepting connection .
..
..
..
..
..
..
giving up.
xinit:  The descriptor is a file, not a socket (errno 108): unable to
connect to X server

waiting for X server to shut down

xinit:   Server error.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com>
To: <cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 3:44 AM
Subject: RE: Cannot open display problem?


>
>
> Try starting xterm from a bash shell, after starting xwin.
> You may have more messages then only "cannot open display".
>
> Suhaib
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Patrick Hung [mailto:hung@Umunhum.Stanford.EDU]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 1:04 AM
> > To: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> > Subject: Cannot open display problem?
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> > Please ignore this message if you are still working on this problem.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Patrick
> >
>