Newbie needs help getting GUI

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Peter Urban wrote:

> I installed Cygwin/X on an XP computer. I'm trying to connect to a
> Redhat workstation that allows an SSH connection. Launching Cygwin, I
> get the shell. Typing "ssh -Y - username hostname", I can successfully
> connect to the workstation and get a shell. Pardon what may be a simple
> question, but how do I get a GUI?

Depending on the desktop environment you have to run different programs 
which startup the GUI:

Gnome: gnome-session
KDE: startkde
CDE: dtsession
X11: ~/.xinitrc
(this will do the same as startx)

You can start a single program by typing it's name:

$ mozilla 
$ gimp

You can add this to the ssh commandline for easy access:

ssh -Y username@hostname gnome-session 

This will login and start the remote gnome desktop.
Please note that running the remote desktop with multiwindow mode will
result in a strange window layout, so are best used in the windowed mode
(omiting the -multiwindow parameter).

bye
	ago
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