Allen, Matthew <MAllen <at> utcretail.com> writes: > > You should be able to simply set the DISPLAY variable and get xset to > work that way. The other option I'd think you should be able to do is > use a "-display" option to xset. But I haven't confirmed xset has it. >
Thanks, Allen. Indeed, xset does have a '-display' option and using it with 'localhost:0.0' fixed the problem with my Windows/DOS script. The next question is this: At the end of my script I start Mathematica on the remote computer and display its front end in a local X window with this command rxvt -e ssh -Y remote_computer_name mathematica This works but leaves behind a superfluous RXVTerm that I'd rather not see. This should work without the extra RXVTerm, but doesn't ssh -Y remote_computer_name mathematica Why? jjo -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/