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Re: Windows GUI apps from xterm
- From: "xerces8" <xerces8 at butn dot net>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com, "Holger Krull" <holger dot krull at gmx dot de>
- Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:32:33 +0200
- Subject: Re: Windows GUI apps from xterm
- References: <46E00287.4010101@pdf.com> <46E009C1.20700@gmx.de> <46E7F9FE.6050301@pdf.com> <46E806BF.8090200@gmx.de>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Holger Krull <holger.krull@gmx.de> wrote :
>
> Keep things on the list please.
>
> > Now from the same cygwin shell, if I run "rsh any_unix_machine", I am
> > now logged into a unix box, now I run "rsh terminal_server_name", I am
> > now back on the terminal server. Now if I run calc, it doesn't work,
> > attached are 2 snapshots.
>
> so you have
> terminal-server ->unix ->terminal-server
>
> I'm not suprised that this doesn't work.
> The second rsh session you create on the terminal server is not aware of the former
> terminal-server connection. You wouldn't expect to see the graphical output of calc if you would
> sit in front of the unix server and doing a rsh to the terminal-server.
Actually this works just fine, _if_ :
- remote login client and server program know and do propagate the DISPLAY variable
(telnet is more likely to support DISPLAY propagation than rlogin/rsh)
Regards,
David
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