Re: xterm
Ronald Fischer wrote: Cole Radcliffe wrote: When I try to run xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l from the cygwin shell I get an error that says xterm Xt error: Can't open display DISPLAY is not set Make sure the X server is running first (run 'startxwin'). This might not sufficient - at least it is not in my system: Even when you start the X server (in my case in multiwindow mode), but then try to start xterm from a CMD Cygwin shell (such as from the shell you get when opening the Cygwin icon which is created by default when you setup Cygwin initially), you get the above error message. The trick is that in your startxwin, you have to create at least one xterm (or rxvt) initially. From this, you can then open others. I don't know about your copy but te stock startxwin does this already. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 429-6305 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/
Re: xterm
Make sure the X server is running first (run 'startxwin'). This might not sufficient - at least it is not in my system: Even when you start the X server (in my case in multiwindow mode), but then try to start xterm from a CMD Cygwin shell (such as from the shell you get when opening the Cygwin icon which is created by default when you setup Cygwin initially), you get the above error message. Well, sure. X allows individual programs running on one computer to display selectively on a different one over the network, which is quite handy. You can also have multiple X servers running on the same host, thanks to things like virtual consoles, Xnest, Xvnc, etc. But that means that an X client can't safely make assumptions about where the X server is. So you have to tell it. You do this by supplying a display identifier string. In the usual case, a single X server on the same machine as the program, the display identifier is almost always :0. How do you provide this information? The usual way is by setting the environment variable DISPLAY. If you have a shell that was started up by an X program (like xterm or rxvt), that shell will inherit the value of DISPLAY (if you type echo $DISPLAY you will see it). So that shell can automatically start up X programs; they will show up on the same display as the window you type their command in. However, a plain Cygwin shell running in a Windows command window has no knowledge of X by default, and no DISPLAY variable set. So when you try to run an X program it complains about not being able to open the display - because you haven't told it which display to open. (Not the most informative error message, and it probably ought to default to :0, but I'm just the messenger. :)) You can tell each program manually where to display: $ xterm -display :0 Or you can just set DISPLAY yourself first: export DISPLAY=:0 If you're always (or almost always) going to have X running, you can put the export command in your .bash_profile so that you can always start X programs. But that can cause difficulties - some programs, such as vim, behave differently when DISPLAY is set, and may hang for a while trying to get some information about the X environment if DISPLAY is set when X isn't really running. -- Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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/
Re: emacs does not work, emacs-nox works
Larry Hall (Cygwin X) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Fredrik Staxeng wrote: Xwin works, xterm works, but when I try to run emacs it just silently exits. Run 'cygcheck emacs' and see if it reports any missing DLLs. If so, find this missing package(s) you need to install via 'cygcheck -p missing DLL name'. Rerun 'setup.exe' and install those packages. Try again. Thank you for your help, it wprks now. Turns out the missing dll was cygtiff4.dll, which is in the libtiff4 package. Is setup.exe supposed to handle dependencies? Should I file a bug report? -- Fredrik Stax\ang | rot13: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is all you need to know about vi: ESC : q ! RET -- 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/
Re: emacs does not work, emacs-nox works
Fredrik Staxeng wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin X) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Fredrik Staxeng wrote: Xwin works, xterm works, but when I try to run emacs it just silently exits. Run 'cygcheck emacs' and see if it reports any missing DLLs. If so, find this missing package(s) you need to install via 'cygcheck -p missing DLL name'. Rerun 'setup.exe' and install those packages. Try again. Thank you for your help, it wprks now. Turns out the missing dll was cygtiff4.dll, which is in the libtiff4 package. Is setup.exe supposed to handle dependencies? Should I file a bug report? Thanks for the feedback. Believe it or not, you've already implicitly filed a bug report. ;-) The normal procedure is to report all packaging problems to the cygwin-apps list. Chris Faylor has done this for you already in this case so you needn't do so yourself. 'setup.exe' does handle dependencies as they are defined in 'hint' files provided by Cygwin package maintainers. Your sleuthing has uncovered a missing package from the hint's dependency list for emacs. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 429-6305 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/
Re: xterm
Mark J. Reed wrote: Make sure the X server is running first (run 'startxwin'). This might not sufficient - at least it is not in my system: Even when you start the X server (in my case in multiwindow mode), but then try to start xterm from a CMD Cygwin shell (such as from the shell you get when opening the Cygwin icon which is created by default when you setup Cygwin initially), you get the above error message. Well, sure. X allows individual programs running on one computer to display selectively on a different one over the network, which is quite handy. You can also have multiple X servers running on the same host, thanks to things like virtual consoles, Xnest, Xvnc, etc. But that means that an X client can't safely make assumptions about where the X server is. So you have to tell it. . . . snip While this is technically true, if the Cygwin X server has been started with startxwin in the installed configuration, none of this is necessary. Unless the OP reports that the X server has been started in this way but still has a problem, I believe the most obvious cause of the problem is that the X server is not running. But since the OP also implied that he may not be reading the list, I'm not sure we'll know for sure what specifically is causing the problem. So it's probably not worth speculating about the multiple complicated ways that one can get this same message, unless there's some follow-up from the OP that suggests doing so would be worthwhile. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 429-6305 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/
Changing the font size
I tried to change the font size with the option -fs after the xterm command however xterm did not recognize that option even though it appeared in man xterm. I am guessing that it was just not compiled into the cygwin version of xterm. Is there any other way to accomplish this. I could just set the -fn option which stands for font name and use a font that has a large standard size but someone would need to explain to me how to set that up! I just want to get the shell larger in general so it does not hurt my eyes. Maybe there is another way just to scale everything up? Thanks. -- 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/
