Jay Cross wrote on Friday, March 06, 2009 1:09 AM: > I'm having an problem with cygstart. When I run a program with it in > a bash shell on my cygwin machine everything is fine. When I'm > accessing cygwin through another machine (using SSH through Putty) the > program window never appears regardless of how I specify command args. > The program I specify is running in my Task Manager (Process > Explorer) but it has no visible window associated. I can hear sounds > it makes.. but no window appears. > > Is this a feature or a bug - or something in between?
It sounds like sshd is lacking the "Interact With Desktop flag". You can either remove and reinstall the service with cygrunsrv (and add the -i flag when you reinstall), or open the "Cygwin sshd" Windows service Properties and check the "Allow service to interact with desktop" box in the "Log On" tab. > I've tried changing the ownership of cygrunsrv, bash, and sshd. > > This behavior also occurs when I run the script below. > > I'm trying to run programs/files on my TV computer at the command of > my laptop computer. It would be useful if they actually displayed on > TV computer. > > I know I could use a VNC solution, but it's not really what I'm > looking for. Cygstart seems like it is designed to do something > similar to what I want, am I asking to much? Have I missed something? > > Thanks in advance to anyone that can help. HTH, -- Bryan Thrall FlightSafety International bryan.thr...@flightsafety.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
