Can't open display

ROOT
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I’ve got root installed and running on my own machine fine. However, I’m trying to get it working on my boss’s machine (another project). No hint of a problem till I try to bring up root.

I go to cygwin and type: root.
It responds with:
Error in TGClient::TGClient: can’t open display “localhost:0.0”, switching to batch mode…

Root comes up, but without a display.

Any hints appreciated.

thanks,
k

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Hi k,
do you have an x server running (little X in the task bar next to your clock)? Make sure you have the cygwin x server packages installed, and started the server, e.g. by running startxwin.sh from a (regular, text mode) cygwin bash shell.

You might want to try http://www.hostalive.net/cxlaunch.html.
Axel.

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[quote=“Axel”]Hi k,
do you have an x server running (little X in the task bar next to your clock)? Make sure you have the cygwin x server packages installed, and started the server, e.g. by running startxwin.sh from a (regular, text mode) cygwin bash shell.
[/quote]

Ah, heck. That was it.

[quote=“Axel”]
You might want to try http://www.hostalive.net/cxlaunch.html.
Axel.[/quote]
I’ll check it out.

thanks,
k