How to remotly launch application with SSH and Cygwin/X server

[Larry Hall (Cygwin X)]

On 02/09/2010 06:31 PM, Fabien Tillay wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got a problem with Cygwin/X server (via Cygwin 1.7.1)
> Assuming we have a PC on Linux called X and a PC on Windows called Y.
> I want to send a SSH command from X to Y which launchs firefox on Y.
> (ie Windows)
>
> Firstly, if I go to Y (Windows) and launch a Cygwin shell and then
> enter the 'firefox' command (firefox is in the PATH environment
> variable of course), the Firefox is launched correctly and I can
> navigate to whatever I want.
> If I send a SSH command from X (Linux) to Y (Windows) with the firefox
> command : ssh username@Y_IP_ADDRESS firefox, I've got a firefox.exe
> process in the task manager of Y but Firefox is in the background (ie
> there is no Firefox window).
>
> I have set the DISPLAY environment variable to :0.0.

No matter.  Firefox on Windows knows nothing of X Windows anyway.  No
surprise, right?

> Do you know why it is launched in background ?
> Is there a mean of displaying Firefox launched from the Linux box on Windows ?

Generally, no.  Depending on the version of Windows and Cygwin you're running,
you can go to the Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Services->Cygwin SSHD->
Log On and enable "Allow service to interact with desktop" if you're already
running the service with "Local System".  Pretty much for any other case, you
can't do on Windows what you want to do.

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