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From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin X)" <reply-to-list-only-lh-x@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: problems starting xterm
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:55:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BA3822F.1080808@cygwin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100319140917.18626ajajzoksadc@webmail.df.eu>
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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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-19 13:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-19 9:54 Markus Hoenicka
2010-03-19 13:06 ` Reid Thompson
2010-03-19 13:09 ` Markus Hoenicka
2010-03-19 13:55 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin X) [this message]
2010-03-19 14:06 ` Markus Hoenicka
2010-03-19 15:40 ` Markus Hoenicka
2010-03-19 15:46 ` Ken Brown
2010-03-19 21:13 ` Markus Hoenicka
2010-03-21 13:54 ` Markus Hoenicka
2010-03-19 16:35 ` Jon TURNEY
2010-03-19 21:12 ` Markus Hoenicka
2010-03-21 14:14 ` Andy Koppe
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