Re: unable to open the display on local machine

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Run startxwin.bat first, then run "gv" from within the xterm that pops up.

Harold

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 08:12:56AM +0100, daniel43@gmx.ch wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have installed cygwin localy on a W2K PC.
> > I have installed the package ghostview, using the setup.exe utility.
> > Now, if I try to start ghostview, I type:
> > $ gv &
> > I get the error message:
> > gv: Unable to open the display.
> >
> > I tried to set the DISPLAY variable:
> > $setenv DISPLAY localhost:0.0
> > But the setenv command is not known.
> > So I tried with set:
> > $set DISPLAY localhost:0.0
> > But this does not seem to do anything.
> > When I echo the variable DISPLAY:
> > $echo $DISPLAY
> > I just get a blank line.
> >
> > Help would be very apreciated.
>
>
> Redirecting to the mailing list devoted to Cygwin/X and shutting down this
> thread.
>
> cgf