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Re: Windows GUI apps from xterm


Mahdi A Sbeih schrieb:
> I am on windows terminal server "win_ts":
> When executing a windows GUI application such as "calc" from a cygwin
> shell, it works just fine, without setting any DISPLAY env variable.

No surprise here. Windows applications don't use X11, so they don't look for DISPLAY.


> Now if I connect to terminal server "win_ts" from a unix xterm - I am
> still on the same terminal server - and try to run "calc", it hangs, but
> running something like xcalc works fine.

I'm not sure what you mean by "unix xterm".
If that means connecting from a different system, then you can't get calc because calc can't display itself on a X11 Server.

If you mean starting calc from cygwins xterm on the same server, as your hint suggests, then you probably run into specific problems a terminal server has (finding the right session). 
Starting a windows app from cygwin xterm works here without problems.
Does calc come up in the tasklist?






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