On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 08:49:13PM -0600, Glen Robinson wrote: >I did a chmd on /tmp/.X11-unix and got X "kind of" up. i.e., I have a >screen and a cursor and alt tab will move me in and out of Windows XP >windows/apps. I can't get an xterm running and when I right click on >the X icon in the system tray and 'exit' the submenu that comes up says >that 0 processes are running. Attempting to launch an xterm from a >cygwin window with "DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 && xterm &" fails with a >message that it couldn't open the display.
You're not setting DISPLAY correctly. Try: DISPLAY=:0 xterm& The && does not make any sense for what you are trying to do. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/