Thanks for your reply:-) I followed your advice, now it seems that rdesktop is running, but the window that xinit showed was just plain black. rdesktop is supposed to be a remote desktop client that runs on linux and connect to a windows remote desktop. When I use the command "/usr/bin/xinit.exe ./rdesktop/rdesktop.exe -f 192.168.1.79" in a cygwin terminal, it can show the desktop of 192.168.1.79.
Could this be due to the same reason that startx can't show the cygwin desktop? What should I do? Thanks;-) On 29 October 2015 at 21:23, Jon Turney <jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk> wrote: > On 29/10/2015 06:25, Xuehan Xu wrote: >> >> Hi, everyone >> >> I'm trying to run xinit.exe to start a GUI program in a windows cmd >> prompt. The command I run: >> >> "c:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/xinit.exe >> /home/Administrator/rdesktop.exe -f 192.168.1.79 >> >> But, it seems that rdesktop.exe isn't running, the window was just >> showing a terminal prompt. > > > Using the command lines from the start menu items created for the xinit > package as a template (see [1]), I think you need something like: > > c:\cygwin\bin\run.exe -quote /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c "/usr/bin/xinit.exe > /home/Administrator/rdesktop.exe -f 192.168.1.79" > > The command string being given to bash -c needs quoting, otherwise > subsequent words are assumed to be parameters to that command. > > run needs to be given the -quote option to protect those quotes. > > [1] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-command-line-args > > -- > Jon TURNEY > Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
