XTerm won't start on Win2000
Susannah Fleming
susannaf@rd.bbc.co.uk
Wed Mar 24 12:32:00 GMT 2004
I've fixed the problem by totally removing Cygwin and re-installing from
scratch. So I guess there was some sort of problem with my previous
download. I still have no idea what though.
>I'm a newbie to Cygwin X, and I can't open an XTerm. I've tried various
>options including startxwin.bat, startxwin.sh (from a Cygwin bash shell)
>and manually typing in commands from startxwin.sh.
>When running the bat file in dos, I get nothing - no error messages and no
>xterms.
> From bash, I still don't get xterms but I do get an error message: "xterm
> Xt error: Can't open display: 127.0.0.1:0.0"
>I've tried reinstalling the whole of my Cygwin dist, just Xfree, fonts and
>zlib with absolutely no effect.
>I'm not using ssh and I have a colleague who should have an identical PC
>build who uses Xfree fine, so I know it's possible.
>There is no X log being created in /tmp. In fact, /tmp is empty. Having
>read other posts, I find this distinctly worrying.
>I'm running Win2000Professional and I've checked for suppressed pop-ups
>about missing dlls. There aren't any.
>
>Sorry not to provide more information but this is all I have! Any clues
>for where to find more logs, or (even better) a solution to my predicament
>would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Susannah
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