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Subject:	Re: How to run xinit without first entering a cygwin terminal
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Cc:	Xuehan Xu <xxhdx1985126 AT gmail DOT com>
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From:	Jon Turney <jon DOT turney AT dronecode DOT org DOT uk>
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Date:	Thu, 29 Oct 2015 13:23:15 +0000
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On 29/10/2015 06:25, Xuehan Xu wrote:
> Hi, everyone
>
> I'm trying to run xinit.exe to start a GUI program in a windows cmd
> prompt. The command I run:
>
> "c:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/xinit.exe
> /home/Administrator/rdesktop.exe -f 192.168.1.79
>
> But, it seems that rdesktop.exe isn't running, the window was just
> showing a terminal prompt.

Using the command lines from the start menu items created for the xinit 
package as a template (see [1]), I think you need something like:

c:\cygwin\bin\run.exe -quote /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c "/usr/bin/xinit.exe 
/home/Administrator/rdesktop.exe -f 192.168.1.79"

The command string being given to bash -c needs quoting, otherwise 
subsequent words are assumed to be parameters to that command.

run needs to be given the -quote option to protect those quotes.

[1] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-command-line-args

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Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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