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Re: Cannot open display problem?


Enoch,

I tried your script but same problem...  Thanks anyway.  I'll try to play
the network connection
and see if it makes any difference.

--Patrick


----- Original Message -----
From: "Enoch Wu" <ewu@eskimo.com>
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 10:37 PM
Subject: Re: Cannot open display problem?


> 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.
>
> EW
>
> ----------cut ---------------------------------
>
>
>
> @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
>
> -------cut-------------------------------------
>



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