Cannot open display problem?

[Suhaib Siddiqi]

Try starting xterm from a bash shell, after starting xwin.  
You may have more messages then only "cannot open display".

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Hung [ mailto:hung@Umunhum.Stanford.EDU ]
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 1:04 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Cannot open display problem?
> 
> 
> Hi,
>  
> I am still getting "cannot open display" error message with 
> Windows ME when I use xterm, xhost, ...  As described by 
> others, I can run xterm, twm, etc. from the other machines 
> (Sun, Windows 98, etc.) but not from the local host (Windows 
> ME).  I am using cygwin1.dll from 4/14 snapshot and 4/14 
> xfree binaries.  X is started with the following command.
>  
>     start XWin -engine 1 -screen 0 1024x768x16 -ac
>  
> Please ignore this message if you are still working on this problem.
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Patrick
>