Hello, It is my first time posting to this mailing list so I'd like to send greetings to everyone. Hey!
First of all, I have RTFM'ed and googled and searched the mailing list, etc. etc. all to no avail. My Issue: 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? 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. Jay Here's some info about my setup: Windows XP SP2 CYGWIN 1.5.25 BASH 3.2 CYGSTART 1.4 OpenSSH_5.1p1 OpenSSL 0.9.8j 07 Jan 2009 a script I tried also to no avial: #---- begin script ---- #!/bin/bash # Dan Martin converted this to bash and fixed the chmod's. # # Thanks Randal R Schulz and Stefan Leppert for basic clues. fn="$1" # add execute permissions if there are none isexe=1 [[ -x "$fn" ]] || { isexe=0 ; `chmod a+x "$fn"` ;} win_fn="$(cygpath -w -a "$1")" cmd /c "$win_fn" & # We want to wait for the windows shell to execute the file before we # turn off the exe bit. sleep 1 # if isexe is 0, then we had to set the execute permissions, change back ((isexe)) || chmod a-x "$fn" #---- end script ---- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/