I'm trying to run gedit in cygwin, but receiving error

cygwin gedit
mibo6700 picture mibo6700 · Mar 24, 2016 · Viewed 11k times · Source

I'm trying to run some normal text editor in cygwin (version 2.4.1(0.293/5/3)). I've really disappointed and frustrated with emacs :( So I downloaded and installed gedit as a part of cygwin package, but when I'm trying to run it, I receive:

$ gedit

Unable to init server: Could not connect to 127.0.0.1: Connection refused

(gedit:8196): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

I understand that it can be somehow connected with security issues (it runs on multiuser win10 PC), but I cannot find out how to solve it....

Please help!

Answer

user2759511 picture user2759511 · Mar 31, 2016

I was having the same problem and was able to solve. Your case may be the same

  1. install Cygwin/X

  2. open cygwin and start x11 server by typing

    startxwin >/dev/null 2>&1 &

  3. set DISPLAY environment variable as explained here by typing

    export DISPLAY=:0.0

  4. Start gedit normally

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