Can't run graphical aplications

[João Esteves]

Meanwhile I found that starting X with startxwin.sh sets the display 
correctly and opens a X console. xpdf, xmgrace, etc... work nicelly now. 
Must I start an X session this way?
Thanks.
Joao
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "João Esteves" <joao.m.esteves@netcabo.pt>
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 1:32 PM
Subject: Re: Can't run graphical aplications


> Thank you for your answer, Brett.
>
> I have some (not to much) familiarity with linux, but I'm used to 
> configure a xorg.conf file. I understand that in Cygwin this does not 
> exist, so I'm a little lost in how to set once for all the variable 
> DISPLAY to 127.0.0.1:0.0
> I runned xterm -display 127.0.0.1:0.0 but it gave the error message :
> "Can't open display: 127.0.0.1:0.0
> xterm: Display is not set".
> Also, I have in XP, in menu "start" "programs" (in fact this is in 
> Portuguese, I hope the translation is Ok) "Cygwin-X" a shortcut for xterm, 
> but it doesn't work.
>
> Regards.
> Joao
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Brett Serkez" <bserkez@gmail.com>
> To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
> Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 1:08 PM
> Subject: Re: Can't run graphical aplications
>
>
>> I've tried to start several graphical aplications, like xmgrace, twm or 
>> xpdf
>> and I get always the same message "Can't open display: " It seems there 
>> is
>> no display configured for the X server.
>> On the other hand, Xwin starts the Xserver with no error messages.
>
> You must have the DISPLAY variable set to point to your X-Server, the
> most likely setting to work would be 127.0.0.1:0.0.  If you use the
> xterm that should start with the X-Server, this variable should
> already be set.  X is clinet server, without the DISPLAY variable, the
> clients are you starting have no way to find the X-server.
>
>> Since I'm new in Cygwin, perhaps I'm missing something. Any help on this
>> issue is highly appreciated.
>
> A familarity with UNIX/Linux would be advisable as this is the
> environment that Cygwin is providing.  There are many sources of
> information on this topic including The Linux Documentation Project
> (www.tldp.org).
>
> Brett
>
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