You should be able to simply set the DISPLAY variable and get xset to work that way. The other option I'd think you should be able to do is use a "-display" option to xset. But I haven't confirmed xset has it.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 3:40 PM To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: problem debugging xset command inside batch script (revised) I have narrowed the problem down to the following: It appears that I cannot run the xset command with the options I need from a Windows/DOS command shell or batch file. For example, when I enter the command xset -q the response is xset: unable to open display "" The same is true even if the xset command is called from within a bash shell script which itself is called from a Windows/DOS shell. So it's not due to bash or DOS. Rather, it's because the calling program doesn't have an X display to communicate with. As confirmation of this, I observe that the problem does not occur when I call the same script from a Cygwin/rxvt shell because this shell has an X display already defined. It would be nice to be able to update the X font path on the fly and only when I want to start up this particular application, but short of that, adding the necessary font path to the permanent X font path would be OK too. How do I do that? Thanks, jjo -- 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/ -- 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/
