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@@ -23,6 +23,29 @@ On Windows, use the PuTTY client to enable X11 forwarding. In PuTTY menu, go to
### WSL (Bash on Windows)
To enable the X display forwarding, log in using the `-X` option in the SSH client:
```console
local $ ssh -X username@cluster-name.it4i.cz
```
!!! tip
If you are getting the "cannot open display" error message, try to export the DISPLAY variable, before attempting to log in:
```console
local $ export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
```
## X Server
In order to display the GUI of various software tools, you need a running X server on your desktop computer. For Linux users, no action is required as the X server is the default GUI environment on most Linux distributions. Mac and Windows users need to install and run the X server on their workstations.
### X Server on OS X
Mac OS users need to install [XQuartz server][d].
### WSL (Bash on Windows)
To run Linux GuI on WSL, download, for example, [VcXsrv][a].
1. After installation, run XLaunch and during the initial setup, check the `Disable access control`.
@@ -48,27 +71,6 @@ To run Linux GuI on WSL, download, for example, [VcXsrv][a].
172.26.240.1:0
```
To enable the X display forwarding, log in using the `-X` option in the SSH client:
```console
local $ ssh -X username@cluster-name.it4i.cz
```
!!! tip
If you are getting the "cannot open display" error message, try to export the DISPLAY variable, before attempting to log in:
```console
local $ export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
```
## X Server
In order to display the GUI of various software tools, you need a running X server on your desktop computer. For Linux users, no action is required as the X server is the default GUI environment on most Linux distributions. Mac and Windows users need to install and run the X server on their workstations.
### X Server on OS X
Mac OS users need to install [XQuartz server][d].
### X Server on Windows
There is a variety of X servers available for the Windows environment. The commercial Xwin32 is very stable and feature-rich. The Cygwin environment provides fully featured open-source XWin X server. For simplicity, we recommend the open-source X server by the [Xming project][e]. For stability and full features, we recommend the [XWin][f] X server by Cygwin
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