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Re: Can't run graphical aplications
- From: "Brett Serkez" <bserkez at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 08:08:53 -0400
- Subject: Re: Can't run graphical aplications
- References: <001801c67b3a$61db27f0$6501a8c0@JOAO>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
I've tried to start several graphical aplications, like xmgrace, twm or xpdf
and I get always the same message "Can't open display: " It seems there is
no display configured for the X server.
On the other hand, Xwin starts the Xserver with no error messages.
You must have the DISPLAY variable set to point to your X-Server, the
most likely setting to work would be 127.0.0.1:0.0. If you use the
xterm that should start with the X-Server, this variable should
already be set. X is clinet server, without the DISPLAY variable, the
clients are you starting have no way to find the X-server.
Since I'm new in Cygwin, perhaps I'm missing something. Any help on this
issue is highly appreciated.
A familarity with UNIX/Linux would be advisable as this is the
environment that Cygwin is providing. There are many sources of
information on this topic including The Linux Documentation Project
(www.tldp.org).
Brett
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