Windows GUI apps from xterm

[Holger Krull]

xerces8 schrieb:
> Holger Krull <holger.krull@gmx.de> wrote :
>> Keep things on the list please.
>>
>>> Now from the same cygwin shell, if I run "rsh any_unix_machine", I am
>>> now logged into a unix box, now I run "rsh terminal_server_name", I am
>>> now back on the terminal server. Now if I run calc, it doesn't work,
>>> attached are 2 snapshots.
>> so you have
>> terminal-server ->unix ->terminal-server
>>
>> I'm not suprised that this doesn't work.
>> The second rsh session you create on the terminal server is not aware of the former
>> terminal-server connection. You wouldn't expect to see the graphical output of calc if you would
>> sit in front of the unix server and doing a rsh to the terminal-server.
> 
> Actually this works just fine, _if_ :
>  - remote login client and server program know and do propagate the DISPLAY variable
> 
> (telnet is more likely to support DISPLAY propagation than rlogin/rsh)

No, this is not relevant. We are talking about a Windows Application here.
Calc knows nothing about DISPLAY, it is not using X.

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