From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7406 invoked by alias); 17 May 2012 14:14:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 7396 invoked by uid 22791); 17 May 2012 14:14:43 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,TW_KB,TW_TX,TW_XK X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-bk0-f43.google.com (HELO mail-bk0-f43.google.com) (209.85.214.43) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 17 May 2012 14:14:24 +0000 Received: by bkty5 with SMTP id y5so1962396bkt.2 for ; Thu, 17 May 2012 07:14:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.205.129.8 with SMTP id hg8mr2712514bkc.25.1337264063449; Thu, 17 May 2012 07:14:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.196] (93-33-100-143.ip44.fastwebnet.it. [93.33.100.143]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u8sm11775773bks.0.2012.05.17.07.14.22 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 17 May 2012 07:14:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FB507BC.4050609@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 14:14:00 -0000 From: marco atzeri User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin octave x11 References: <33864360.post@talk.nabble.com> In-Reply-To: <33864360.post@talk.nabble.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-05/txt/msg00018.txt.bz2 On 5/17/2012 3:59 PM, Chillosaurus wrote: > > I try to run octave in cygwin, which works fine, but if I want to draw a plot > it doesn't open a new window. > I'm a beginner with cygwin and unix-environments and was not able to find an > understandable solution. > Starting octave i get the following error: > warning: X11 DISPLAY environment variable not set > Typing "startx" I get the following: > xauth: (stdin):1: bad "add" command line > [dix] Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/OTF/, removing from > list > The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: >> Warning: Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but has 2 symbols >> Ignoring extra symbols > Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server > winBlockHandler - pthread_mutex_unlock() > Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyInvalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyInvalid > MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyInvalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key.. > > I had this error message starting matlab, can that be fixed, is this the > same problem or a different one? > Warning: No display specified. You will not be able to display graphics on > the screen. > > thanks a lot Hi, octave graphics need X running so please follows http://cygwin.com/problems.html so we can understand you X server issue. Instead of startx you can also try startxwin directly or though the "X Win Server" icon on the start menu. Or the new experimental xlaunch (in package xlaunch) Regards Marco -- 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/