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RE: 1.5.25-Cygstart not showing visible window
Jay Cross wrote on Friday, March 06, 2009 1:09 AM:
> I'm having an problem with cygstart. When I run a program with it in
> a bash shell on my cygwin machine everything is fine. When I'm
> accessing cygwin through another machine (using SSH through Putty) the
> program window never appears regardless of how I specify command args.
> The program I specify is running in my Task Manager (Process
> Explorer) but it has no visible window associated. I can hear sounds
> it makes.. but no window appears.
>
> Is this a feature or a bug - or something in between?
It sounds like sshd is lacking the "Interact With Desktop flag". You can
either remove and reinstall the service with cygrunsrv (and add the -i
flag when you reinstall), or open the "Cygwin sshd" Windows service
Properties and check the "Allow service to interact with desktop" box in
the "Log On" tab.
> I've tried changing the ownership of cygrunsrv, bash, and sshd.
>
> This behavior also occurs when I run the script below.
>
> I'm trying to run programs/files on my TV computer at the command of
> my laptop computer. It would be useful if they actually displayed on
> TV computer.
>
> I know I could use a VNC solution, but it's not really what I'm
> looking for. Cygstart seems like it is designed to do something
> similar to what I want, am I asking to much? Have I missed something?
>
> Thanks in advance to anyone that can help.
HTH,
--
Bryan Thrall
FlightSafety International
bryan.thrall@flightsafety.com
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