From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28567 invoked by alias); 9 Feb 2010 23:31:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 28550 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Feb 2010 23:31:28 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-ww0-f43.google.com (HELO mail-ww0-f43.google.com) (74.125.82.43) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:31:22 +0000 Received: by wwi17 with SMTP id 17so2674407wwi.2 for ; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:31:20 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.90.210 with SMTP id e60mr3435989wef.120.1265758280138; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:31:20 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:31:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: How to remotly launch application with SSH and Cygwin/X server From: Fabien Tillay To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2010-02/txt/msg00060.txt.bz2 Hi, I've got a problem with Cygwin/X server (via Cygwin 1.7.1) Assuming we have a PC on Linux called X and a PC on Windows called Y. I want to send a SSH command from X to Y which launchs firefox on Y. (ie Windows) Firstly, if I go to Y (Windows) and launch a Cygwin shell and then enter the 'firefox' command (firefox is in the PATH environment variable of course), the Firefox is launched correctly and I can navigate to whatever I want. If I send a SSH command from X (Linux) to Y (Windows) with the firefox command : ssh username@Y_IP_ADDRESS firefox, I've got a firefox.exe process in the task manager of Y but Firefox is in the background (ie there is no Firefox window). I have set the DISPLAY environment variable to :0.0. Do you know why it is launched in background ? Is there a mean of displaying Firefox launched from the Linux box on Windows ? Thanks Silver -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/