On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 09:09:02AM -0600, Jeremy Bopp wrote: >On 02/24/2012 08:25 AM, Fergus wrote: >> Previously bin/wish was a link to wish84.exe (from memory). Recently it >> was upgraded to wish 8.5.exe. >> Now, unless X is also running, wish fails with >> >> $ wish >> % Application initialization failed: no display name and no $DISPLAY >> environment variable >> >> I'm not quite certain which recently upgraded package led to this: >> tcl-tk or tcltk or ... >> Have I identified a real glitch and if so can this problem be addressed? > >The tcltk libraries now require a running X server in order to display >graphics. This is recent and more importantly intentional according to >what I've read on this list, so there is nothing to address. :-)
The only thing that apparently needs addressing is that you read the list and comprehend what's going on. I wish we could address that by making more people do that. :-) cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
