Re: How to run xinit without first entering a cygwin terminal

2015-11-01 Thread Xuehan Xu
Thanks:-) I know that mstsc is also capable of connecting to a remote desktop. However, we need to specify other arguments, like disk mapping, in command line, which cannot be achieved through mstsc. So we intend to use rdesktop. Can I make the rdesktop to full screen? Until now, I can only open

Re: How to run xinit without first entering a cygwin terminal

2015-10-31 Thread Jon Turney
On 30/10/2015 00:40, Xuehan Xu 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

Re: How to run xinit without first entering a cygwin terminal

2015-10-29 Thread Xuehan Xu
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 wrote

Re: How to run xinit without first entering a cygwin terminal

2015-10-29 Thread Xuehan Xu
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 .

Re: How to run xinit without first entering a cygwin terminal

2015-10-29 Thread Jon Turney
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 i

How to run xinit without first entering a cygwin terminal

2015-10-28 Thread Xuehan Xu
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 showin