Re: Cygwin xdvi

[Danny Chrastina]

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Sven Seebeck wrote:

> I've installed cygwin on my XP machine. I installed also xdvi. But 
> whenenver I try to open it, I receive an error: "Can't open display". 
> How can I solve this? I really would need an working Dvi viewer.

	You need to start the x server, and then set the "DISPLAY" 
variable to "localhost:0" or equivalent in the shell from which you want 
to start xdvi. And then start a windows manager like twm.

http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using.html

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