Cygwin/X and loggin on remote server

[Jani Tiainen]

Jani Tiainen wrote:
> Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Jani Tiainen wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I've used cygwin/x to use remote wm and tools for a long time, and I 
>>> use connection via SSH tunnel since connection between machines are 
>>> not secured.
>>>
>>> Now I would like to provide more generic way to login on remote 
>>> machine, I can do this with startxwin.bat but I want to close initial 
>>> _local_ xterm used to get login & password prompt after it has fired 
>>> up session... How can be this done...?
>>
>>
>>
>> start xterm like this:
>> xterm -e "ssh -f -Y remotehost .xsession && exit"
>>
>> or (simulating xdm login)
>> xterm -e "ssh -f -Y remotehost /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession gnome && exit"
>>
>> instead of "gnome" you can use kde, kde2 or whatever window managers 
>> are configured on the system.
>>
>> If you omit the "&& exit" the xterm will stay
> 
> 
> wow, my bug was that I omited "-f" from ssh switches and "&& exit", I 
> tried & (single) and it always failed with error... =)
> 
> Now it works. Thank you very much, now I can use my desktop as single 
> click X-terminal.
> 
> I also tried to run XDM but always got "only root would run" message...

Actually this doesn't work.

I use following line (using startxwin.bat):

run xterm -ms red -fg white -bg black -e "/usr/bin/ssh -f -Y -p 22022 
myaccount@my.ip.com xterm && exit"

But initial xterm window stays, even you can't write anything in it...

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Jani Tiainen