On 11 October 2010 17:02, reckoner wrote: > Evidently, there is some subtle difference in how the DISPLAY variable, > which is set in the user startup files is processed by rxvt as opposed to > mintty. > > Ultimately, although the DISPLAY variable is clearly set in the user startup > files, I additionally had to set it higher up in the startup process in > /etc/profile in order to get it to work with mintty.
Rxvt and also xterm set DISPLAY to the X display they're connected to. Mintty of course isn't an X application, hence all it could do is take an uneducated guess and set DISPLAY to ':0'. I don't think that would be appropriate, because no X server might be present or it might point at the wrong one. The Cygwin console and PuTTYcyg don't set DISPLAY either. Andy -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
