How can I use the X server under cygwin?
Note that you already have XFree86, the free version of X server, when you first installed cygwin. If not, run the cygwin Setup program again and install it. So you only have to configure it. You first make sure that the directory /usr/X11R6/bin is in your search path. Under bash, this was automatically setup, but you have to do it yourself under tcsh: e.g. > setenv PATH `printenv PATH`:/usr/X11R6/bin > rehash Next, make sure that the .xsession file (or equivalent) is set up in your home directory. Finally, from the cygwin prompt, simply call “Xwin”, or to get to spunky.nyu.edu, do: > Xwin :0 -query spunky.nyu.edu You can also call: > xinit More Options: Wenguang Wang (wang@cs.usask.ca) at U Saskatchewan (http://www.cs.usask.ca/grads/wew036/latex/xfig.html) suggests the following: put a .xinitrc file into your home directory, say, with the following lines: xhost + localhost cd xterm -display $DISPLAY -name “xterm-1” -sb \ -sl 1000 -geometry +0+0 & xterm -display $DISPLAY -name “xterm-2
