X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4F47A80E.5060605@bopp.net> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:09:02 -0600 From: Jeremy Bopp User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Recent upgrade to wish leads to a problem References: <4F479DDD.9080501@bonhard.uklinux.net> In-Reply-To: <4F479DDD.9080501@bonhard.uklinux.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 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. :-) -Jeremy -- 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