X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4C4F03F9.9040500@bopp.net> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:06:17 -0500 From: Jeremy Bopp User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100512 Thunderbird/3.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: opening notepad.exe from linux to window via ssh runs in background References: <29277832 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 7/27/2010 10:55 AM, Ryan McLeod wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:51 AM, saravanan_k83 wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I have setup a ssh connection between linux box and windows using cygwin, I >> issued the java code to start notepad on windows. It actually starts notepad >> in background. i am not able to see it in foreground. >> >> javacode: >> Runtime.getRuntime().exec("notepad.exe") >> >> I even tried setting CYGWIN sshd services "Allow service to interact with >> desktop" checked. still it is not showing up notepad screen. >> >> any idea how to fix this? > > You probably need to enable X11 forwarding to forward the GUI in the > ssh client and server. > > Ryan Notepad is not an X client application, so no amount of X11 mischief will affect it at all. That is probably not what the OP wants anyway. I want to think that the ability to spawn GUI processes from an SSH session stopped working for Windows Vista and above. Earlier Windows versions can supposedly be made to do it by granting the desktop interaction right to the account used to run the SSH server, but I haven't tried to do that. This issue has cropped up in the mailing list before with a fair bit of discussion. Search the mailing list archives for details. -Jeremy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple