unable to open the display on local machine

[Harold L Hunt II]

Run startxwin.bat first, then run "gv" from within the xterm that pops up.

Harold

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 08:12:56AM +0100, daniel43@gmx.ch wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>I have installed cygwin localy on a W2K PC.
>>I have installed the package ghostview, using the setup.exe utility.
>>Now, if I try to start ghostview, I type:
>>$ gv &
>>I get the error message:
>>gv: Unable to open the display.
>>
>>I tried to set the DISPLAY variable:
>>$setenv DISPLAY localhost:0.0
>>But the setenv command is not known.
>>So I tried with set:
>>$set DISPLAY localhost:0.0
>>But this does not seem to do anything.
>>When I echo the variable DISPLAY:
>>$echo $DISPLAY
>>I just get a blank line.
>>
>>Help would be very apreciated.
> 
> 
> Redirecting to the mailing list devoted to Cygwin/X and shutting down this
> thread.
> 
> cgf