[xcrysden] Library problem when installing Xcrysden in Windows 7

[Tone Kokalj]

On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 16:33 +0200, Lucia Rodrigo Insausti wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Finally I got to install the right packages of cygwin (I think) but
> I'm still not able to run the program properly. Now I get this new
> error message:
> 
> $ ./xcrysden
> 
> +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
> |*****************************************************************|
> |*                                                               *|
> |*  XCrySDen -- (X-Window) CRYstalline Structures and DENsities  *|
> |*               =         ===         =              ===        *|
> |*---------------------------------------------------------------*|
> |*                                                               *|
> |*    Anton Kokalj (tone.kokalj at ijs.si)                          *|
> |*    Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia                *|
> |*                                                               *|
> |*    Copyright (c) 1996--2012 by Anton Kokalj                   *|
> |*                                                               *|
> |*****************************************************************|
> +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
> 
>   Version: 1.5.53
> 
>   Please report bugs to: tone.kokalj at ijs.si
> 
> 
>   TERMS OF USE:
>   -------------
>   XCRYSDEN is released under the GNU General Public License.
> 
>   Whenever graphics generated by XCRYSDEN are used in scientific
>   publications, it shall be greatly appreciated to include an explicit
>   reference. The preferred form is the following:
> 
>   [ref] A. Kokalj, Comp. Mater. Sci., Vol. 28, p. 155, 2003.
>         Code available from http://www.xcrysden.org/.
> 
> XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR=/home/xcrysden-1.5.53-bin-cygwin
> XCRYSDEN_SCRATCH=/tmp
> 
> Application initialization failed: no display name and no $DISPLAY
> environment variable


This means that you are trying to run xcrysden outside X-window
environment, which won't work!

First start the X-Window and then from, say, xterm launch the xcrysden!

Regards, Tone

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