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  1.  You will need a user account on calico
  2. Fire up your X11 server if not already running
  3. Turn on X11 tunneling/forwarding in your ssh client
  4. ssh to calico
  5. On calico, run:
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     Xnest :1 -query jeol.cnf.cornell.edu
    
    1. In the above command, if server screen :1 is in use, you should try :2 or :3 or so on
  6. Login to the jeol
  7. Keep in mind that your connection between calico and jeol is NOT encrypted

Cats

  • If you do not really need a full CDE desktop, please do not start one.
  • Instead, just run the individual X applications you need.
  1. Fire up your X11 server if not already running
  2. Turn on X11 tunneling/forwarding in your ssh client
  3. ssh to cats
  4. To start a CDE desktop, run:
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    /usr/dt/bin/Xsession
    
  5. To instead just run individual X applications, just run the application. Eg. xterm

Calico

  • If you do not really need a full Gnome/KDE desktop, please do not run one.
  • Instead, just run the individual X applications you need.