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xterm Error: Can't open display: localhost:0.0 - Mar. 17, '06, 7:25:17 AM

jgh7711

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Hello everyone, this my first post and probably an easy fix. I have SFU 3.5 installed on a Windows XP Professional machine with SP2 and have also installed Toolworks 2.3. When I type xterm in a shell I get this Error: Can't open display: localhost:0.0 not sure were to start I have experience with Microsoft products, Redhat Linux, and couple flavors of UNIX but I am not a programmer. More of a hardware guy learning, I need access to a basic x terminal though so?

Thanks

JGH / KE5DHD

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RE: xterm Error: Can't open display: localhost:0.0 - Mar. 17, '06, 11:09:28 AM

Rodney

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Microsoft does not ship an X-server with SFU (or separately or with any other product).
You need to install either a commercial (pay-for) or freely available X-server for Windows.
So you can buy the Interopsystems version (based on Hummingbird's Exceed), or Exceed or XWin32.
XWin32 does have a "light version" (runnable only for the local machine) that free.
Other free versions are available such as Xming.

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RE: xterm Error: Can't open display: localhost:0.0 - Mar. 20, '06, 12:24:57 AM

jgh7711

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Ok thanks for the info. I figured it might be due to there being no X server but the way I read some things here, I thought that maybe xterm had been "modified" to run by itself with some accompanying libraries. Not knowing enough about the inner workings of the software �bytes� me again.

Thanks

JGH / KE5DHD

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