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Re: gv: Unable to open the display.
- From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: "lin q" <linq936 at hotmail dot com>, kdibble at alltel dot net, cygwin at cygwin dot com, cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:04:22 -0400
- Subject: Re: gv: Unable to open the display.
- References: <42E5459F.3010701@alltel.net><BAY105-F38F6A39C656E2EFAFC8BAFE9CA0@phx.gbl>
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At 05:41 PM 7/25/2005, you wrote:
>>From: Ken Dibble <kdibble@foo.bar>
>>To: cygwin <cygwin@foo.bar>, cygwin-xfree@foo.bar
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>>Subject: Re: gv: Unable to open the display.
>>Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:03:43 -0500
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>>lin q wrote:
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>>>Hi,
>>> I just installed gv using the cygwin installer, I select "Download from the internet" option and the install process runs for quite a while.
>>>
>>> After that I run "/usr/X11R6/bin/gv.exe" and I saw this error,
>>>
>>>gv: Unable to open the display.
>>>
>>> What does that mean?
>>>
>>> Should I install something else for gv to run? Shoudn't cygwin installer already consider that?
>>>
>>>Thanks.
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>>Moved to Cygwin-Xfree .
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>>Is X running or are you trying to run gv from a cmd-type shell?
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>>You'll probably get more help if you follow the problem reporting guidelines at
>>http://cygwin.com/problems.html
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>>Tthe XWin log file would be helpful as well.
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>>Regards,
>>Ken
>It seems I should know a lot more to make gv running...
>
>My only purpose is to view a postscript file content and as I know I should run gv, so i installed gv package and then in cygwin shell I type "/usr/X11R6/bin/gv.exe".
'gv' is an X program. It requires the X-server to run before it will
display. You need to start the server first. Type 'startxwin' and that
should help. For more info, see:
<http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/cygwin-x-ug.html>
>In the installation process there is nothing obvious wrong.
There isn't anything wrong. 'setup.exe' knows 'gv' is a X program. It
knew to install the X-server for you. But you have to know to run the
server.
>You mentioned I should run X first, what that mean? Is there some program I should run before I fire up gv?
Yep, as I mentioned above.
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