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Re: xfree
- From: "Csaba Palotai" <c0palo01 at louisville dot edu>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 16:11:00 -0400
- Subject: Re: xfree
- References: <Sea2-F42ridnGiAw8HQ00005b34@hotmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: "Csaba Palotai" <csaba dot palotai at louisville dot edu>
>>I tried it and it gave different behaviour, but the end result still was
>>"can't open display".
> What was the exact behavior? Please paste your exact commands and output,
> that will help in diagnosing the problem.
I use
setenv DISPLAY 127.0.0.1:0.0
and then I get sort of the same "Can't open display" message but not
immediately as before, but there's a good 20 sec delay in between.
> # xauth generate :0 .
> (Don't forget the period at the end.) For more info, see man xauth.
ok, now
%xauth generate :0 .
xauth: creating new authority file /home/csaba/.Xauthority
xauth: (argv):1: unable to open display ":0".
And the .Xauthority file was not created either.
i believe the whole xfree does not work correctly on my syste, which is just
weird cuz I installed the whole cygwin package which should take care of it.