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Re: Starting a xterm window
- From: Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBBroeker at t-online dot de>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 18:29:58 +0200
- Subject: Re: Starting a xterm window
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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.
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