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How to remotly launch application with SSH and Cygwin/X server
- From: Fabien Tillay <ccarpediem at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:31:20 +0100
- Subject: How to remotly launch application with SSH and Cygwin/X server
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
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
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