From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4486 invoked by alias); 6 Jan 2009 03:57:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 4230 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Jan 2009 03:57:11 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtpgate2.pacific.net.sg (HELO smtpgate2.pacific.net.sg) (203.120.90.32) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with SMTP; Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:57:07 +0000 Received: (qmail 7653 invoked from network); 6 Jan 2009 03:57:05 -0000 Received: from bb116-14-26-144.singnet.com.sg (HELO ?10.0.1.131?) (oceanare@116.14.26.144) by smtpgate2.pacific.net.sg with ESMTPA; 6 Jan 2009 03:57:05 -0000 Subject: Re: Run a Cygwin (X) app from a DOS command line From: Erich Dollansky To: John Emmas Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <002601c96b6f$04256030$4001a8c0@mycomputer> References: <001d01c96b41$2bbb20e0$4001a8c0@mycomputer> <495B920A.3040802@cygwin.com> <002601c96b6f$04256030$4001a8c0@mycomputer> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:08:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1231214221.1753.4.camel@P2120.somewherefaraway.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2009-01/txt/msg00117.txt.bz2 Hi, it seems to me that the application misses a running X server. It is the same under Unix if you start an X application directly on a console without having X running. Erich On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 17:41 +0000, John Emmas wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" > Subject: Re: Run a Cygwin (X) app from a DOS command line > > > > You also need Cygwin's installation path in your Windows PATH variable. > > > Thanks Larry. I already had that set up (C:\cygwin\bin) as well as > C:\cygwin\lib but I can still only launch console apps. When this happened > for the very first time I seem to remember that "rebaseall" sorted it out. > Unfortunately, but that doesn't seem to fix the problem any more. > > The required program is clearly getting launched because I can see it in > Task Manager - but it doesn't seem to get as far as putting anything on the > screen. > > cygcheck -c reports a few packages as being incomplete (including libX11 > and xorg-X11-bin). I might try reinstalling them and see if that improves > things. > > John > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/