"Can't open display - Failed initializing GUI, exiting"

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Smagul wrote:

> Dear cygwin-xfree people,
> 
> I am trying to compile xmgrace and to run under Cygwin. I have already
> compiled it
> successfully on my PC with my WindowsME. However, I could not get it to run
> on
> Cygwin. When I type xmgrace, am getting ERROR message
> 
> "Can't open display - Failed initializing GUI, exiting"
> Then I did
> $ export DISPLAY=:0
> and typed xmgrace. I again get the same error message. What is the problem?
> How can I fix it?

you have to start the xserver in advance. Type startxwin. this will start the 
xserver (you'll notice an X in the traybar). Then you can start xmgrace with
DISPLAY=:0.0 xmgrace

bye
	ago
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