Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:33:01 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Cc: cygwin-xfree AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: unable to open the display on local machine Message-ID: <20031120153301.GB32016@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin-xfree AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, cygwin-xfree AT cygwin DOT com References: <28343 DOT 1069312376 AT www12 DOT gmx DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <28343.1069312376@www12.gmx.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 08:12:56AM +0100, daniel43 AT gmx DOT ch wrote: >Hello, > >I have installed cygwin localy on a W2K PC. >I have installed the package ghostview, using the setup.exe utility. >Now, if I try to start ghostview, I type: >$ gv & >I get the error message: >gv: Unable to open the display. > >I tried to set the DISPLAY variable: >$setenv DISPLAY localhost:0.0 >But the setenv command is not known. >So I tried with set: >$set DISPLAY localhost:0.0 >But this does not seem to do anything. >When I echo the variable DISPLAY: >$echo $DISPLAY >I just get a blank line. > >Help would be very apreciated. Redirecting to the mailing list devoted to Cygwin/X and shutting down this thread. cgf -- 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/