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Re: startxwin - xinit unable to connect to X server
- From: Bryan Berns <bryan dot berns at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 20:04:29 -0400
- Subject: Re: startxwin - xinit unable to connect to X server
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- References: <4a3f92951e894d9abcc0f184ad983ba1 at ES12AMSNLNT dot srn dot sandia dot gov>
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Kunz, Christopher L <clkunz@sandia.gov> wrote:
> After updating to the latest Cygwin distribution, I can no longer connect to X server. When I run startxwin (on a fresh Cygwin install), I get the following errors:
>
> xinit: giving up
> xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
> xinit: server error
>
> The XWin.#.log looks okay, I think (see attached). I've set DISPLAY to :0.0.
>
> Thanks.
When's the last time you had updated the xinit package?
Try launching as startxwin as startxwin -- -listen tcp
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