Cygwin, $DISPLAY, & xterm

From: puma (nowhere_at_nospam.net)
Date: 05/24/04 

Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 07:23:41 GMT

I want to run xterm under Cygwin under Windows ME.

I'm not interested in using it to run a shell remotely on another host,
I just want to run it as a local shell to run emacs in because I'm told
that xterm windows can be resized arbitrarily, whereas I find the normal
Cygwin windows cannot and are much smaller than I want.

Looking at the news groups, I see talk about having to run xhost
+something in order to run xterm, but that may just be for remote
execution, not local execution, I don't know. And I really am not sure
exactly what the "something" should be.

I think the $DISPLAY environment variable has to be set up in a certain
way, and I've experimented setting it up a bunch of ways, but nothing
has worked.

My hostname is vaio. Suppose my ip address is 1.2.3.4. Can anybody
tell me exactly what I have to do to get an xterm going, hopefully
without compromising the security of my machine?

If there is a more appropriate group to be posting Cygwin questions,
please let me know. The only Cygwin group I could find was in German.

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