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Graphical User Interface

Find out how you can take advantage of the graphical resources presented by the Facility servers from you own workstations.

Native X display support

This explains the three ways to remote the native X server (i.e. the ":0" X display).

What is VNC and why use it?

VNC is a way to view and fully interact with one computer desktop using a simple program on another computer desktop anywhere on the Internet.

Virtual Network Computing (VNC)

What it is and what makes it different from other computer systems.

Using VNC with SSH

Read this to know how to 'tunnel' the VNC protocol through SSH, to provide more security to your connection.

Macinstall

Macintosh Software Installation for VNC

Using ssh

Secure Shell Client (remote login program)

X Windows

X Windows is a distributed Graphical User Interface (GUI) environment. In other words, you can run a program on a UNIX machine, but have the window appear on your local machine. This gives you the full functionality of using the graphical interface, while still having the power of a large UNIX computer.

Computer windowing system

X Window System (commonly X11 or X) is a networking and display protocol which provides windowing on bitmap displays. It provides the standard toolkit and protocol to build graphical user interfaces (GUIs) on Unix-like operating systems and OpenVMS, and is supported by almost all other modern operating systems.

Running X window on Microsoft Windows using X-Win32.

The Social Sciences Computing Services has licensed X-Win32. To get the software installed follow the instructions here. Once installed there are a series of steps that can be followed to create a connection.

Running X window on Microsoft Windows using VNC

UNIX applications with a graphical user-interface require the use of X-windows or other remote display software when connecting from a remote location. VNC on Windows systems is currently supported.

Using X- windows from an Apple computer

UNIX applications with a graphical user-interface require the use of X-windows or other remote display software when connecting from a remote location. the X-windows (using Apple X11) on Macintosh computers is currently supported.

Macinstall

Macintosh Software Installation for VNC

Using ssh

Secure Shell Client (remote login program)

X Windows

X Windows is a distributed Graphical User Interface (GUI) environment. In other words, you can run a program on a UNIX machine, but have the window appear on your local machine. This gives you the full functionality of using the graphical interface, while still having the power of a large UNIX computer.

Computer windowing system

X Window System (commonly X11 or X) is a networking and display protocol which provides windowing on bitmap displays. It provides the standard toolkit and protocol to build graphical user interfaces (GUIs) on Unix-like operating systems and OpenVMS, and is supported by almost all other modern operating systems.

Running X window on Microsoft Windows using X-Win32.

The Social Sciences Computing Services has licensed X-Win32. To get the software installed follow the instructions here. Once installed there are a series of steps that can be followed to create a connection.

Running X window on Microsoft Windows using VNC

UNIX applications with a graphical user-interface require the use of X-windows or other remote display software when connecting from a remote location. VNC on Windows systems is currently supported.

Using X- windows from an Apple computer

UNIX applications with a graphical user-interface require the use of X-windows or other remote display software when connecting from a remote location. the X-windows (using Apple X11) on Macintosh computers is currently supported.

Virtual Network Computing (VNC)

What it is and what makes it different from other computer systems.