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From: "Ronald Fischer" <ynnor@mm.st>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Cygwin/X does not seem to work on Windows 10
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2019 11:52:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2bf76c1b-1cf5-4097-940d-0634e8db2ca6@www.fastmail.com> (raw)

What I did:

- Installed all the packages, as described in https://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/setup.html
- Started XLaunch
- Selected "Multiple Window" and "Start no client", to start the X Server
- Clicked on "Fertig stellen" (= finish).
- Using mintty, I started a cygwin shell (zsh).
- Inside this shell, I tried a 

    xterm &

which, not surprisingly, resulted into:

   xterm: Xt error: Can't open display:
   xterm: DISPLAY is not set

and then a 

    DISPLAY=:0.0 xterm &

which also produced an error message:

   xterm: Xt error: Can't open display: :0.0

Interestingly, there is an X-Icon in the notification area, and when I hover over it, the tooltip says "Cygwin/X Servre: 0.0", but when I right-click on this icon, no context menu appears.

When I do a double-LEFT-click on this icon, the icon disappears completely.

I then opened the Task Manager, but could not find any process where the name hinted that an X server would be running.


Ronald

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             reply	other threads:[~2019-06-04 11:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-04 11:52 Ronald Fischer [this message]
2019-06-04 13:18 ` Massimo Balestra
2019-06-04 13:28   ` Ronald Fischer
2019-06-04 13:26 ` Brian Inglis
2019-06-04 13:34   ` Ronald Fischer

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