Re: Cannot open display problem?

["Patrick Hung" <hung at arithmetic dot stanford dot edu>]

Hi Suhaib,

Thanks for your suggestion.  Here's the result.

$ cd /usr/X11R6/bin

$ export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0

$ ./xterm :0
./xterm Xt error: Can't open display: 127.0.0.1:0.0

--Patrick


----- Original Message -----
From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com>
To: <cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 3:41 AM
Subject: RE: Cannot open display problem?


>
> >From a bash cd to /usr/X11R6/bin and try
>
> export DISPLAY=127.0.0.0.1:0.0
>
> then
> ./xterm :0
>
> Suhaib
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Patrick Hung [mailto:hung@arithmetic.stanford.edu]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 9:04 PM
> > To: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> > Subject: Re: Cannot open display problem?
> >
> >
> >
> > After I started xwin, I tried to run xhost and xterm and get
> > these messages:
> >
> > > xterm &
> > [1] 765117
> > > xterm Xt error: Can't open display: TOTORO:0
> >
> > [1]     Exit 1            xterm
> > > xhost +
> > xhost:  unable to open display "TOTORO:0"
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com>
> > To: <cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 3:44 AM
> > Subject: RE: Cannot open display problem?
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Try starting xterm from a bash shell, after starting xwin.
> > > You may have more messages then only "cannot open display".
> > >
> > > Suhaib
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Patrick Hung [mailto:hung@Umunhum.Stanford.EDU]
> > > > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 1:04 AM
> > > > To: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> > > > Subject: Cannot open display problem?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I am still getting "cannot open display" error message with
> > > > Windows ME when I use xterm, xhost, ...  As described by
> > > > others, I can run xterm, twm, etc. from the other machines
> > > > (Sun, Windows 98, etc.) but not from the local host (Windows
> > > > ME).  I am using cygwin1.dll from 4/14 snapshot and 4/14
> > > > xfree binaries.  X is started with the following command.
> > > >
> > > >     start XWin -engine 1 -screen 0 1024x768x16 -ac
> > > >
> > > > Please ignore this message if you are still working on
> > this problem.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Patrick
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
>