Re: Cygwin, $DISPLAY, & xterm

From: Bit Twister (BitTwister_at_localhost.localdomain)
Date: 05/24/04 

Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 16:04:51 GMT

On Mon, 24 May 2004 07:23:41 GMT, puma wrote:
> I want to run xterm under Cygwin under Windows ME.

Assuming you have a cygwin desktop manager running, you should be able
to enter the command xterm to popup a window. If you want to keep
the teminal free you can do a xterm &

In either case I would guess if you were to do an echo $DISPLAY
it should have something like :0.0

If $DISPLAY is blank, try doing an
export DISPLAY=:0.0
xterm &

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