Re: How can you launch graphical applications on a windows ssh server

comphelp@xxxxxxxxx (Todd H.) writes:
blueman <NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

I am using ssh from my linux machine to run a shell on my windows
machine running cygwin ssh server.

I would like to use this remote shell to launch graphical Windoze
applications on my Windoze desktop.

For example, if I type 'firefox' (with the correct path) on the remote
ssh client terminal, I would like the firefox window to pop-up
graphically on the host Windoze server desktop. However, when I do
this nothing happens. The program just hangs.

I guess what I am asking is whether there is some analog of the unix
"DISPLAY" variable that if set will cause the Windows applications
launched on the ssh client to display on the host Windows server
desktop.

Unfortunately, no. They're very different animals. Windows has the
graphical subsystem tied up in the kernel if I recall correctly,
whilst our unix friends separate the GUI out entirely with startx and
window managers, and teh ability for remote X client programs to
connect to an X server on another machine and such.

To do anything graphically on windows, you need the gui interface, and
the mechanics to get at it are different.


So what you are saying is that a process that is launched directly from the
desktop machine itself (e.g., a cygwin shell) can in turn launch a
graphical process on the desktop but a process that is launched
remotely (e.g., via ssh) can not launch a graphical process on the
desktop?

If so, then basically unless I use a separate server like VNC or
Remote Desktop (which I don't want to do) then I cannot launch
anything graphically remotely?

Hmmmmm
Thanks
.

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