Re: Starting a xterm window

Re: Starting a xterm window

[Ugly Leper]

>> /usr/bin/xterm: Xt error: Can't open display: :0.0
>> /usr/bin/xterm: DISPLAY is not set

Thanks for all suggestions. Both the following fragments seem to work
flawlessly. Both incorporate a waiting time for XWin to gain traction
before xterm is called:

1. Starting a xterm console from a .cmd file in a Windows Command
Prompt box: include the lines

bin\run bin\XWin -clipboard -nolock -multiwindow 2>nul
timeout 2 > nul 2> nul
bin\xterm -display :0.0

2. Starting a xterm console from a script in a bash (or mintty) shell:
include the lines

run XWin -clipboard -nolock -multiwindow 2>/dev/null &
sleep 2
/bin/xterm -display :0.0

You can vary the pause e.g. timeout 3 or sleep 4. Maybe as brief a
fuse as timeout 1 or sleep 1 will be adequate; but that would make me
nervy about getting the same failure as in >> at the top of this post.

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Re: Starting a xterm window

[Jon Turney]

On 09/06/2017 11:14, Ugly Leper wrote:
>>> /usr/bin/xterm: Xt error: Can't open display: :0.0
>>> /usr/bin/xterm: DISPLAY is not set
> 
> Thanks for all suggestions. Both the following fragments seem to work
> flawlessly. Both incorporate a waiting time for XWin to gain traction
> before xterm is called:
> 
> 1. Starting a xterm console from a .cmd file in a Windows Command
> Prompt box: include the lines
> 
> bin\run bin\XWin -clipboard -nolock -multiwindow 2>nul
> timeout 2 > nul 2> nul
> bin\xterm -display :0.0
> 
> 2. Starting a xterm console from a script in a bash (or mintty) shell:
> include the lines
> 
> run XWin -clipboard -nolock -multiwindow 2>/dev/null &
> sleep 2
> /bin/xterm -display :0.0
> 
> You can vary the pause e.g. timeout 3 or sleep 4. Maybe as brief a
> fuse as timeout 1 or sleep 1 will be adequate; but that would make me
> nervy about getting the same failure as in >> at the top of this post.

You could also write something like 'startxwin /usr/bin/xterm -- -nolock'

You might want to take a look at the manpages for xinit, startx, 
startxwin.  These are the standard tools for starting an X server and 
client(s), while allowing for the fact that the X server is not ready to 
accept connections instantly after being started.

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Starting a xterm window

[Ugly Leper]

Just getting a problem: this used to work but has stopped!
From within bash I can type

$ run XWin -clipboard -nolock -multiwindow 2>/dev/null &
$ /bin/xterm -display :0.0

and I am in a xterm window. Good; as intended.

If I want to enter xterm straight from a Windows command prompt I try

G:\> bin\run bin\XWin -clipboard -nolock -multiwindow 2>nul &
G:\> bin\xterm -display :0.0

but line 2 gives

/usr/bin/xterm: Xt error: Can't open display: :0.0
/usr/bin/xterm: DISPLAY is not set

Any ideas? (This used to work, it really did ...)

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Re: Starting a xterm window

[Hans-Bernhard Bröker]

Am 07.06.2017 um 17:18 schrieb Ugly Leper:
 > If I want to enter xterm straight from a Windows command prompt I try
 >
 > G:\> bin\run bin\XWin -clipboard -nolock -multiwindow 2>nul &
 > G:\> bin\xterm -display :0.0

I'm less than convinced that the '&' at the end of the first command is 
a valid idea.

 > /usr/bin/xterm: Xt error: Can't open display: :0.0
 > /usr/bin/xterm: DISPLAY is not set
 >
 > Any ideas? (This used to work, it really did ...)

WFM, without the '&', and each line copy-pasted individually, so there's 
some time for X to start before its services are required.

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Re: Starting a xterm window

[cyg Simple]

On 6/7/2017 12:29 PM, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
> Am 07.06.2017 um 17:18 schrieb Ugly Leper:
>> If I want to enter xterm straight from a Windows command prompt I try
>>
>> G:\> bin\run bin\XWin -clipboard -nolock -multiwindow 2>nul &
>> G:\> bin\xterm -display :0.0
> 
> I'm less than convinced that the '&' at the end of the first command is
> a valid idea.
> 

Probably not since this is from a Windows CMD.

>> /usr/bin/xterm: Xt error: Can't open display: :0.0
>> /usr/bin/xterm: DISPLAY is not set
>>
>> Any ideas? (This used to work, it really did ...)
> 
> WFM, without the '&', and each line copy-pasted individually, so there's
> some time for X to start before its services are required.
> 

And you're using a Cygwin shell instead of a Windows shell.  That may be
more of an issue for the OP.

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