Fwd: Only console users can use startx

[Jon Turney]

On 02/09/2020 02:48, Jim McNamara via Cygwin wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I got tigervnc to work over ssh. I cant get past when I type startx into
> the screen I logged into. It is the login screen like ctrl+f2. Any ideas?
> 
> I'm trying to look at xfce from cygwin.

There's a lot of detail missing here, so I'm forced to guess what you 
are trying to do.

Assuming it's something like 'use cygwin vncviewer to connect to a 
remote xfce session running on a vncserver through a ssh tunnel', startx 
isn't really the right tool to use here, instead adjust ~/.vnc/xstartup 
to run startxfce.