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Re: Windows GUI apps from xterm
- From: Holger Krull <holger dot krull at gmx dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:08:01 +0200
- Subject: Re: Windows GUI apps from xterm
- References: <46E00287.4010101@pdf.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
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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