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Re: Windows GUI apps from xterm


Holger Krull <holger.krull@gmx.de> wrote :
> 
> Keep things on the list please.
> 
> > Now from the same cygwin shell, if I run "rsh any_unix_machine", I am
> > now logged into a unix box, now I run "rsh terminal_server_name", I am
> > now back on the terminal server. Now if I run calc, it doesn't work,
> > attached are 2 snapshots.
> 
> so you have
> terminal-server ->unix ->terminal-server
> 
> I'm not suprised that this doesn't work.
> The second rsh session you create on the terminal server is not aware of the former
> terminal-server connection. You wouldn't expect to see the graphical output of calc if you would
> sit in front of the unix server and doing a rsh to the terminal-server.

Actually this works just fine, _if_ :
 - remote login client and server program know and do propagate the DISPLAY variable

(telnet is more likely to support DISPLAY propagation than rlogin/rsh)

Regards,
David



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