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Re: Problem Starting Xterm
- From: Mark Paulus <mark dot paulus at mci dot com>
- To: "cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 07:26:52 -0700
- Subject: Re: Problem Starting Xterm
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
How are you starting your xterm? Are you giving it the
-display option (xterm -display :0 &)?
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:40:53 +0000, Kevin Piotrowicz wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have just installed cygwin on WIN XP, with the all xorg packages
>installed. But not the xfree86 ones because they say removed package
>beside them - which I take to mean they are deprecated?
>
>Anyway by using either startxwin.bat startx or startxwin.sh, the xwin
>program starts and has the black X in the system tray it doesn't seem
>frozen as I can toggle hiding it if I want, but no xterm starts, and
>when I try to manually start one using just the command xterm the
>response is: "xterm Xt error: Can't open display:"
>
>Could someone help me with this?
>
>Thanks
>
>Kevin