Cannot launch git gui using cygwin on windows

Question

I used to launch git gui within my cygwin console without any problems but since I updated cygwin I\'ve got the following error message:

$ git gui
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Answer 1

Here is what worked for me:

cat >> ~/.bash_profile <<< "export DISPLAY=:0.0"

From cygwin package manager, do the following:

install xorg-server and some xorg fonts, xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 especially

Next create a link to windows font folders for git gui to use

ln -s /cygdrive/c/Windows/Fonts /usr/share/fonts/win-fonts

Close the cygwin terminal and open again then type

startxwin &> /dev/null &

git gui &