X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 10:03:57 -0500 From: Neil Watson To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Starting gvim from Windows Message-ID: <20060309150357.GD6731@ettin.watson-wilson.ca> References: <030920061444 DOT 6533 DOT 44103F560009C3870000198522007613940A050E040D0C079D0A AT comcast DOT net> <20060309145201 DOT GC6731 AT ettin DOT watson-wilson DOT ca> <20060309145251 DOT GG3979 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060309145251.GG3979@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> X-Message-Flag: Outlook is a dangerous and insecure program (Magic 8 ball: Outlook not good) X-Accepted-File-Formats: No proprietary Microsoft Office files please User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 09:52:51AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>That helped. The orginal error no longer appears. Now I get the error >>'cannot open display'. X is running. > >And your DISPLAY environment variable is set to...? Ah ha! I set my DISPLAY Windows variable to 127.0.0.1:0.0. Now it works. Thank you. -- Neil Watson | Gentoo Linux Network Administrator | Uptime 5 days http://watson-wilson.ca | 2.6.11.4 AMD Athlon(tm) MP 2000+ x 2 -- 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/