From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Cygwin emacs - does it work? Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:04:08 +0200 Message-ID: <48986BE8.8050300@gmail.com> References: <48985B66.3090207@gmail.com> <87bq075zhn.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <48986514.9020007@gmail.com> <48986930.2040107@harpegolden.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217948866 4062 80.91.229.12 (5 Aug 2008 15:07:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 15:07:46 +0000 (UTC) To: David De La Harpe Golden , Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 05 17:08:35 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KQO8r-0007dh-SF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:08:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54031 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KQO7w-00070t-OE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:07:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KQO5D-0003ZO-M1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:04:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KQO5C-0003YJ-NY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:04:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38916 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KQO5C-0003Y6-G5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:04:18 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]:40122) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KQO5B-000497-Rm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:04:18 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-176.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.176]:62549 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KQO59-0002dX-4N; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:04:15 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <48986930.2040107@harpegolden.net> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080805-0, 2008-08-05), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.176 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KQO59-0002dX-4N. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1KQO59-0002dX-4N 5006eae4360278a5ce30d7f4140ba0db X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:102091 Archived-At: David De La Harpe Golden wrote: > Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote: > >> I just installed the cygwin Emacs for X. I have never used X. When I try >> to start Emacs now I get the rather incomprehensible: >> >> $ emacs >> emacs: Cannot connect to X server localhost:0.0. >> Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use `-d'. >> Also use the `xhost' program to verify that it is set to permit >> connections from your machine. >> >> What? >> > > Did you start the X server first? It probably isn't set up to > autostart. (Also, you may have to install the X server via > cygwin setup.exe if you haven't already) > > IIRC (okay, I googled) recent cygwin provides a batch file to start it > for you. It may still be > in c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\startxwin.bat > > Run it if it's there. Thanks David, that worked. And the (old) Emacs for X could be started. However it is version 21.