On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 06:42:58PM -0000, John Emmas wrote: > Sorry Phil if my questions seem 'lame'. I should have explained that I > only > installed Cygwin this morning so I'm by no means up to speed with the > concepts or terminology. > > Anyway, I managed to arrange Windows so that it now starts X at boot up. > This means that I can use a (DOS) console window to navigate to the > appropriate directory, type 'HelloWorld' and my HelloWorld app launches > with X just running silently in the background. That's a lot slicker than > the procedure I was using a few hours ago. Thanks for the suggestion. > > What's strange though is that I can't just double-click on the app's icon > and launch it. There's a (slim) chance that this could be a Windows > problem > but I've never known any other Windows app that can be started from a > command line but can't be started by clicking its icon. Any ideas?
X apps use a DISPLAY environment variable to denote which display they should attach to. It's possible that all that you need to do is add DISPLAY=:0 to your environment via the Control Panel->Systems setting. 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/