On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Jani Tiainen wrote: > 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...? > > Well let's narrow down this problem...
I've tried your batch file and I was even able to start a whole remote gnome desktop and the initial xterm disappeared. > Now what happens? Initial, local xterm window is shown and I enter > mypasswd. This far things work well. > > Then I have found out two different end situations depending on exit and > contents in .xsession : > > I endup having initial login screen as empty, but sticking on desktop > and everything is working > > Whole SSH tunnel disappeares and I'm left with empty X root. If for some reason the remote program exits, the whole ssh session will exit. ssh -Y remotehost "xterm" will start a remote xterm and forward all X11 via the tunnel ssh -Y remotehost "xterm &" will start a remote xterm, put it in the background and ssh will exit, leaving the xterm without a working server bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723