On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Jani Tiainen wrote:
I've used cygwin/x to use remote wm and tools for a long time, and I use connection via SSH tunnel since connection between machines are not secured.
Now I would like to provide more generic way to login on remote machine, I can do this with startxwin.bat but I want to close initial _local_ xterm used to get login & password prompt after it has fired up session... How can be this done...?
start xterm like this: xterm -e "ssh -f -Y remotehost .xsession && exit"
or (simulating xdm login) xterm -e "ssh -f -Y remotehost /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession gnome && exit"
instead of "gnome" you can use kde, kde2 or whatever window managers are configured on the system.
If you omit the "&& exit" the xterm will stay
wow, my bug was that I omited "-f" from ssh switches and "&& exit", I tried & (single) and it always failed with error... =)
Now it works. Thank you very much, now I can use my desktop as single click X-terminal.
I also tried to run XDM but always got "only root would run" message...
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Jani Tiainen
