A tiny snippet of useful bash shell code today, to help with setting your DISPLAY variable if integrating Cygwin/X into your Windows environment, add it to a .bashrc for effect.
Launching X apps from the ‘Cygwin Terminal’ is smoothed as a result.
#RT Check for XWin and set DISPLAY if present.
ps -a | grep -v grep | grep /usr/bin/XWin > /dev/null
result=$?
if [ “${result}” -eq “0” ] ; then
export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
else
echo “No X.org server running, DISPLAY not set.”
fi
Rob Thatcher 