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  • Subject: exact instructions on environment variables
  • Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 15:57:15 +0100 (CET)

Dear Friends,
I am encouraged by using texmacs with cgwin; there is one obscure point
however; in order to use texmacs, I need to do the following according to
your detailed instructions below on your website:

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Start and test your X. Double click on the Cygwin icon on your Desktop, this
brings up a black Cygwin shell. Type:

export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
XWin -multiwindow -clipboard &
xterm &

In the tray in the lower right corner of your screen you will see a black X
and an additional (white) window should appear. In order not to set the
DISPLAY variable again and again, you should set it as a user's variable
under Start->Control_Panel->System->Advanced->Environment_variables.

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I'm using an XP machine. If I simply type texmacs & I get a fatal error. So
it is important to set the variables. HOW DO YOU DO THIS PRECISELY?? I know
how to go to the Environmental variables window in XP , but how to you input
and set these in WINDOWS??? The instructions are completely vague. They
presume that a geek knows how to already. Please help out. Show precisely
step by step what needs to be done. Thanks. Chris


  • exact instructions on environment variables, chris_guna, 03/15/2004

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