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Re: Newbie needs help getting GUI
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 17:34:50 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: Newbie needs help getting GUI
- References: <000501c583cd$da74f700$2101a8c0@KFA18>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Peter Urban wrote:
> I installed Cygwin/X on an XP computer. I'm trying to connect to a
> Redhat workstation that allows an SSH connection. Launching Cygwin, I
> get the shell. Typing "ssh -Y - username hostname", I can successfully
> connect to the workstation and get a shell. Pardon what may be a simple
> question, but how do I get a GUI?
Depending on the desktop environment you have to run different programs
which startup the GUI:
Gnome: gnome-session
KDE: startkde
CDE: dtsession
X11: ~/.xinitrc
(this will do the same as startx)
You can start a single program by typing it's name:
$ mozilla
$ gimp
You can add this to the ssh commandline for easy access:
ssh -Y username@hostname gnome-session
This will login and start the remote gnome desktop.
Please note that running the remote desktop with multiwindow mode will
result in a strange window layout, so are best used in the windowed mode
(omiting the -multiwindow parameter).
bye
ago
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