Hi,
I've set up Cygwin 1.7.1 lately, along with X and some applications.
The X server works ok and claims to be Version 1.7.5 Build Date:
2010-02-05. I can run Emacs as an X application without hassles.
However, when I start the X server, or when I try to run xterm from
the X server
On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 10:54 +0100, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
Hi,
I have plenty of shells installed (bash, ash, dash), and they work ok
in MinTTY. I'm afraid I'm missing some simple but important setting
somewhere. Any ideas?
what happens when you call xterm from the mintty command line?
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Reid Thompson reid.thomp...@ateb.com was heard to say:
what happens when you call xterm from the mintty command line?
$ xterm Xt error: Can't open display:
xterm: DISPLAY is not set
Do I have to set DISPLAY manually? And if yes, what should it read?
regards,
Markus
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Markus Hoenicka
On 3/19/2010 9:09 AM, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
$ xterm Xt error: Can't open display:
xterm: DISPLAY is not set
Do I have to set DISPLAY manually? And if yes, what should it read?
For the mintty test case, yes, you need to set DISPLAY. Use this:
export DISPLAY=:0.0
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Larry Hall
Larry Hall (Cygwin X) reply-to-list-only-l...@cygwin.com was heard to say:
For the mintty test case, yes, you need to set DISPLAY. Use this:
export DISPLAY=:0.0
Yep, that works, except for the following warning:
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
As this method to
Markus Hoenicka markus.hoeni...@mhoenicka.de mumbled:
As this method to start xterm seems to work, do I have to start the
X server some other way than I do now? I just use the Win start menu
entry Cygwin-X-XWin Server.
I can answer that one myself. Running startxwin from mintty works
On 3/19/2010 11:40 AM, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
Markus Hoenickamarkus.hoeni...@mhoenicka.de mumbled:
As this method to start xterm seems to work, do I have to start the
X server some other way than I do now? I just use the Win start menu
entry Cygwin-X-XWin Server.
I can answer that one
On 19/03/2010 09:54, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
I've set up Cygwin 1.7.1 lately, along with X and some applications. The
X server works ok and claims to be Version 1.7.5 Build Date:
2010-02-05. I can run Emacs as an X application without hassles.
However, when I start the X server, or when I try to
Jon TURNEY writes:
Google suggests '4.90.2.20040617' is a novell netware client version.
Good catch. I use a Windoze client on a Netware network at work, so
this client is likely to be installed. But then, why would xterm try
to run that client???
regards,
Markus
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Markus Hoenicka
Ken Brown writes:
Does your CYGWIN environment variable contain tty?
http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-startxwin-no-windows
Thanks for the hint. Will check on Monday.
regards,
Markus
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Markus Hoenicka
http://www.mhoenicka.de
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