From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 40461 invoked by alias); 8 Jun 2017 17:13:37 -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 40447 invoked by uid 89); 8 Jun 2017 17:13:36 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=services, HContent-Transfer-Encoding:8bit X-HELO: mail-it0-f46.google.com Received: from mail-it0-f46.google.com (HELO mail-it0-f46.google.com) (209.85.214.46) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 08 Jun 2017 17:13:35 +0000 Received: by mail-it0-f46.google.com with SMTP id r63so22308015itc.1 for ; Thu, 08 Jun 2017 10:13:39 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=9Tjxpr0NUEFxN1lSuabft6wXeuseOnfUpqQapZJaapE=; b=XyZS2U1gvUenE6VX6xcIt3CVhhxZbeUdZfcJnGvhRklrJUWsoWhqxMZuvVGdcBFy1I p7z4Ksn0QTqNTsaoyRZEdUnJkVgAYTBvlMvaACn2OwxQMwpMTFLTWxdK/tByG82cVqCq wUsJGgMoHrqbn2ClzPprqOp1UlNTqIf74/Ke+UlJuIJjaKutbEUtneqET30/HBzWbQPT wnHW8PBcuOUYciOAZTXp8p8jtqu3agNX3+EtnvxApW/yft7nCDSYJzBqBaFI/uDhZbkm wXLCGxgXUB3IGf5hIt9Uy1/g3MZkO1qvRW9PiJTtfatd1uKgY5i6tEKeZOZ6B7XGkHXh qB7g== X-Gm-Message-State: AODbwcA1Jp6W8u6jJG06Y0vjFlf+LnraSQ+an1Ok1LimORFYOfs8vE3G i8xb4mFPoB1A8i9J X-Received: by 10.36.74.3 with SMTP id k3mr6866796itb.28.1496942018199; Thu, 08 Jun 2017 10:13:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.6] (d4-50-42-50.try.wideopenwest.com. [50.4.50.42]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id v7sm2452417iov.30.2017.06.08.10.13.37 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 08 Jun 2017 10:13:37 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Starting a xterm window To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: From: cyg Simple Message-ID: Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2017 17:13:00 -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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-06/txt/msg00067.txt.bz2 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. -- cyg Simple -- 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