Cygwin/X and loggin on remote server

Jani Tiainen redetin@luukku.com
Sat Oct 23 12:38:00 GMT 2004


Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Jani Tiainen wrote:
> 
> 
>>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...?
>>
>>Well let's narrow down this problem...
> 
> 
> I've tried your batch file and I was even able to start a whole remote gnome
> desktop and the initial xterm disappeared.

Thats my intention too (exception to use xfce)

Could this be problem with my .xsession, what should I have content for 
it..?

-- 

Jani Tiainen



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