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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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  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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