Windows Manager

Roman Belenov rbelenov@yandex.ru
Tue Dec 17 20:01:00 GMT 2002


Martín De Marchi <mdemarc@fi.uba.ar> writes:

> Can I launch the remote program from a cygwin shell (cygwin.bat)
> or a dos shell  (not a XWindows session, startxwin.bat) ?
> I try it in both ways and the message "program: cannot connect to X sever"
> is showed...
> There is any way for configure the X and launch the remote programs from
> a dos shell?

You should set DISPLAY environemnt variable to correct value, e.g.

set DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0  (in cmd.exe) or
export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 (in cygwin shell)

-- 
 							With regards, Roman.



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