Following update to XWin or xorg-server: changed syntax to get a xterm terminal window

[Michael DePaulo]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Fergus Daly
<fergusd@frontier-science.co.uk> wrote:
> For ages I used
>     XWin -nolock -nolisten local -multiwindow &
>     xterm -display localhost:0.0
> to get a xterm terminal.
> Following recent updates I get a fatal error: "Cannot establish any listening sockets."
> In the past, updates to XWin have sometimes led to similar difficulties, but I have always managed to iterate to a new successful joint syntax
>     XWin <arguments>
>     xterm <arguments>
> but this time I am totally stymied.
> Can anybody offer me a working syntax please?
> Thank you.
> Fergus

By default, XWin 1.17 no longer listens on TCP sockets, only on unix
domain sockets.
https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2015-06/msg00003.html

However, "-nolisten local" disables unix domain sockets.,

So to use unix domain sockets:
    XWin -nolock -multiwindow &
    xterm -display :0.0

Or to keep using TCP sockets:
    XWin -nolock -nolisten local -listen tcp -multiwindow &
    xterm -display localhost:0.0

-Mike

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