Can I launch a graphical windows app from within a cygwin ssh session

[Vince Hoffman]

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, DePriest, Jason R. wrote:

> On Tuesday, November 02, 2004 4:12 PM, Mark Stuhr wrote
> [--cut some stuff--]
>> launch a windows app that should run on that remote (or host, can
>> never keep that syntax straight) box.  (In other words a server runs
>> an app most of the time, but not as a service.  That app needs
>> restarting for whatever reason and I'm on the road.  I can dial in
>> with my pocketpc and get an ssh session going to that server, at that
>> point I'd want to kill that app, easy, then I need to restart that
>> app so it will stay running on that server even after I disconnect my
>> ssh session.
> [--cut some stuff--]
>> How do I do that???
>
> I am not in a position to test it out right now.
>
> But what happens if you have the Cygwin SSH service on the remote system
> set to interact with the local desktop?  Cygrunsrv has a commandline
> switch --interactive to set this when you install the service, but you
> can also change it by looking at the service properties through the
> Windows services applet.
>

Been a year or so since i tried it but that certainly used to work.



> -Jason
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