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RE: Cannot open display
- To: "'Gert Bartholomeeusen'" <gert dot bartholomeeusen at eng dot ox dot ac dot uk>, "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: Cannot open display
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 15:50:37 -0400
>From Cygwin bash shell if you type
Export DISPLAT=127.0.0.1:0.0
Then
XWin -screen 0 1024x768x16 -whitepixel 255 -blackpixel 0 -engine -4&
Does Xserver starts? If not post the exact error messages, please.
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gert Bartholomeeusen [mailto:gert.bartholomeeusen@eng.ox.ac.uk]
> Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 3:22 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Cannot open display
>
> Dear Cygwin People,
> I have trouble getting the xfree86 to work with Cygwin. I followed
> the
> installation instructions through
> (http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/howto/cygwin-xfree-ug.html) When I come
> to the 'startxwin.bat' I get 'Can't open display'. (Clicking the batch
> file made a couple DOS-boxes flash up and off)
> I tried start XWin first and afterwards an Xterm
> $ XWin -screen 0 1024x768x16 -whitepixel 255 -blackpixel 0 -engine -4
> <Screen Output>
> $ xterm Xt error: Can't open display:
>
> Changing SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 to my ip-address did not help.
> What can I test next?
> Thanks,
> Gert