RE: Cannot open display problem?

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

>From a bash cd to /usr/X11R6/bin and try

export DISPLAY=127.0.0.0.1:0.0

then
./xterm :0

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Hung [mailto:hung@arithmetic.stanford.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 9:04 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Re: Cannot open display problem?
> 
> 
> 
> After I started xwin, I tried to run xhost and xterm and get 
> these messages:
> 
> > xterm &
> [1] 765117
> > xterm Xt error: Can't open display: TOTORO:0
> 
> [1]     Exit 1            xterm
> > xhost +
> xhost:  unable to open display "TOTORO:0"
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- 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
> > >
> >
> 
>