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[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.
Do you have installed and started X-Windows? If not you should do that before starting gv.
| 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.
Cygwin uses the bash shell as default. In bash setting a variable is done this way:
export DISPLAY="localhost:0.0"
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