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Re: Windows GUI apps from xterm


On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Holger Krull 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, the calc process is spawned by the inetd service, which usually
cannot interact with the desktop by default.  If the OP enables the
"Interact with Desktop" checkbox for the inetd service, this should work.
	Igor
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