By the way, the error that popped up when running startx from the windows command line was something like this: "Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-XsPeRupEi : connection refused" and "environment variable $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS isn't properly configured"
On 30 October 2015 at 08:40, Xuehan Xu <xxhdx1985...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
