problems starting xterm

[Ken Brown]

On 3/19/2010 11:40 AM, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> Markus Hoenicka<markus.hoenicka@mhoenicka.de>  mumbled:
>
>> As this method to start xterm seems to work, do I have to start the
>> X server some other way than I do now? I just use the Win start menu
>> entry Cygwin-X->XWin Server.
>>
>
> I can answer that one myself. Running startxwin from mintty works
> without a hitch. This is no big deal for me, but this still leaves me
> wondering why one of the officially recommended ways to start X (as
> per the docs, see
> http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using.html#using-starting) fails on my
> system.

Does your CYGWIN environment variable contain tty?

http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-startxwin-no-windows


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