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

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

2015-10-29 Thread Xuehan Xu
t.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 wrote: > On 29/10/201

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

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

2015-11-01 Thread Xuehan Xu
the remote desktop in a window. Thanks:-) On 31 October 2015 at 19:45, Jon Turney wrote: > 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 show