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06-05-2013

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X Windows display

Hello Folks,

Have X-Win 32 installed on my desktop.

Earlier when it used to be XP, ran the following commands on unix system:

Code:

export DISPLAY=<desktop ip>:0.0
xterm

Above used to work like charm

Now it got upgraded to Windows 7
Setting the display & triggering xterm doesn't work. It error's out saying:

Code:

Error: Can't open display: <desktop id>:0.0

Is there anything specific that needs to be done for Windows 7.
Advice please.

Update:
Just tried on a friend's system running Windows XP.
It worked perfect.

Thoughts what additional things do I need to do for Windows 7?

---------- Post updated at 02:45 PM ---------- Previous update was at 11:47 AM ----------

Had to enable X11 forwarding in putty.

Query:
Thoughts on why this X11 forwarding is required with Windows 7 & not earlier in XP?

Last edited by radoulov; 06-07-2013 at 06:11 AM..

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tk_attachhwnd

HWND(3TK)						       Tk Library Procedures							 HWND(3TK)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME

       Tk_GetHWND, Tk_AttachHWND - manage interactione between the Windows handle and an X window

SYNOPSIS

       #include <tkPlatDecls.h>

       HWND
       Tk_GetHWND(window)

       Window
       Tk_AttachHWND(tkwin, hwnd)

ARGUMENTS

       Window	    window	       (in)	 X token for window.

       Tk_Window    tkwin	       (in)	 Tk window for window.

       HWND	    hwnd	       (in)	 Windows HWND for window.
_________________________________________________________________

DESCRIPTION

       Tk_GetHWND returns the Windows HWND identifier for X Windows window given by window.

       Tk_AttachHWND binds the Windows HWND identifier to the specified Tk_Window given by tkwin. It returns an X Windows window that encapsulates
       the HWND.

KEYWORDS

       identifier, window

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |  ATTRIBUTE TYPE    | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Availability	    | SUNWTk	      |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Interface Stability | Uncommitted     |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
NOTES

       Source for Tk is available on http://opensolaris.org.

Tk									8.0								 HWND(3TK)