From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 130653 invoked by alias); 7 Jun 2017 15:18:58 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 129609 invoked by uid 89); 7 Jun 2017 15:18:56 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=DISPLAY X-HELO: mail-qt0-f181.google.com Received: from mail-qt0-f181.google.com (HELO mail-qt0-f181.google.com) (209.85.216.181) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 07 Jun 2017 15:18:54 +0000 Received: by mail-qt0-f181.google.com with SMTP id u12so9462130qth.0 for ; Wed, 07 Jun 2017 08:18:58 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=4uuHlJAHf7iAnn4uXWba0Y8mAU6xhjwOL0VsVxY+eyg=; b=C+C/oqkw1Gosgh/KsXO6JKEdAB/SJyHHUgUgHYHM34W4TD95jkzHu5r8IjyGFsOC/C b4rzTfbV0xRcGhvs4qk4I8w4qIlzVd1ip1ERIk4pWNbiI2LkJ9VUXopcpKArRid8iuTi o0AEkyv6z3MbZ2TD2EKM/Gz74LQbl6epnno5xqgCSjaqC8RMhM6JtgCJnZ2vtsZ0oHbS OwBv22CdwPhmO6UX/KI6uXTnDs6pOYaFAnAQ+J9h+pULcM4vAFo1/cUfC0AldRRsgEhM TJtZ4OZyYWNmejvM4tqv0rPdTIpCkoHNLifK8LaRaqL9EqDlGRkIEibFmJs5WMS/M9Cs 6pKA== X-Gm-Message-State: AODbwcAR61i9gDWWbjd0NE8t6p9sLQMgdVqRU/0cl2Ib4Y2j2tcoec5C aZSeYQaZpTg8wq/18No/6LkYXAF/ibSI X-Received: by 10.55.195.199 with SMTP id r68mr39204053qkl.23.1496848737265; Wed, 07 Jun 2017 08:18:57 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.140.92.20 with HTTP; Wed, 7 Jun 2017 08:18:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Ugly Leper Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 15:18:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Starting a xterm window To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-SW-Source: 2017-06/txt/msg00039.txt.bz2 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 ...) -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple