X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Flags: 0001 Message-ID: <20060523154035.215960@gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 17:40:35 +0200 from: Peter Mueller In-Reply-To: <61f6f4390605230701q26fb068el1ae80f88a3fa3fb9@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060523134838.19260@gmx.net> <61f6f4390605230701q26fb068el1ae80f88a3fa3fb9@mail.gmail.com> subject: Re: Java program under cygwin? to: Jim Drash , cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authenticated: #23355608 X-Mailer: WWW-Mail 6100 (Global Message Exchange) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Hello Dave, hello Jim! > It looks like no X11 DISPLAY variable was set, but this > program > performed an operation which requires it. This is probably a consequence > of > the fact that you're trying to run a GUI in a text-only environment. OK, then I guess I got something wrong: I thought cygwin would help me run programs under Linux from a windows machine ...? When running the same Java programme directly under the same Linux machine the program is working as expected. Jim Drash wrote: > Are you running an X-server on your local box? That is what the > message is saying. It needs to talk to an X-server. Sorry, I am a complete newbie to all this! :-( What is an X-Server? Thanks again, Peter -- Bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten sparen: GMX SmartSurfer! Kostenlos downloaden: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/