From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 85542 invoked by alias); 7 Jun 2017 16:30:04 -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 82049 invoked by uid 89); 7 Jun 2017 16:30:02 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*F:D*t-online.de, H*r:sk:mailout, Hx-languages-length:607, H*Ad:D*t-online.de X-HELO: mailout04.t-online.de Received: from mailout04.t-online.de (HELO mailout04.t-online.de) (194.25.134.18) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 07 Jun 2017 16:30:00 +0000 Received: from fwd26.aul.t-online.de (fwd26.aul.t-online.de [172.20.26.131]) by mailout04.t-online.de (Postfix) with SMTP id C2C9E41BA651 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2017 18:30:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.2.28] (VTnEaiZE8hCUaqrwa+-CoL4GW-UkcWyL229ZET2Wug++L29Mgdp0xcppGD2D549Q+b@[91.59.27.138]) by fwd26.t-online.de with (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) esmtp id 1dIdqL-18u8si0; Wed, 7 Jun 2017 18:30:01 +0200 Subject: Re: Starting a xterm window To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: From: =?UTF-8?Q?Hans-Bernhard_Br=c3=b6ker?= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 16:30:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-06/txt/msg00041.txt.bz2 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. -- 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