problems starting xterm

[Larry Hall (Cygwin X)]

On 3/19/2010 9:09 AM, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> $ xterm Xt error: Can't open display:
> xterm:  DISPLAY is not set
>
> Do I have to set DISPLAY manually? And if yes, what should it read?

For the mintty test case, yes, you need to set DISPLAY.  Use this:

export DISPLAY=:0.0

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A: Yes.
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