X windows problems

[Art Vandelay]

Hi, I have happily used Cygwin on my laptops for years (Windows XP).
This past week I upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7 (64 bit).

I have made perhaps 10 different attempts at installing Cygwin and it
seems each time I get different errors.

Some of the mirror sites are terribly slow, so after Googling I've
settled on kernel.org, but I still get errors using that mirror.

One frequent error is the "Download incomplete" error.  I usually
ignore this one, perhaps ignoring it is causing the other issues?

If ignoring it is a problem, what are my options?  Try another mirror?

Another common error is something like "Can't open (null)".

I am able to start X windows using "startx", the windows manager
creates 3 terminals for me.  But when I try to use xterm to create my
own terminal I get:

No protocol specified
xterm: Xt error: Can't open display :0

-Alan

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