The aged X11 technology provides a solid starting point for simple and lightweight graphical applications but struggles with many of the modern graphics-intensive GUIs that are available with many of the software packages MSI supports. There are also more detailed instructions available at NoMachine Support.For years the X11 Window System (Xwin32/Putty on Windows, X11/Terminal on Mac) has been the defacto standard for remotely displaying a graphical user interface from an MSI workstation or cluster on your local client. The download page for the DEB file has instructions on how to install. When I clicked on the NX Client DEB, the GDebi Package Installer didn't start. Do NOT run computationally intensive programs on these servers. The NoMachine servers are a shared resource.

You will be connected to a Linux desktop environment on one of the NoMachine servers in CLAS.You are connecting to the correct server if the window shows this RSA fingerprint: 78:6f:5e:70:0b:1e:57:27:f2:7b:74:c7:84:f1:3a:19. The first time you connect, you'll be asked to verify the key fingerprint of the NoMachine server.Enter your HawkID in the 'Login' field, enter your HawkID password in 'Password' field, and then click Login:.Change the pulldown from KDE to GNOME and click Next:.

Enter 'CSG Linux Desktop' for the 'Session' field and for the 'Host' field and click Next:.

Click Next on the initial NX Connection Wizard screen:.

Select Applications > Internet > NX Client for Linux > NX Client for Linux:.

Click Install Package, type in your password and the package will be installed.

You will be prompted to open the package with GDebi Package Installer, click OK.

Select the NX Client DEB for Linux based on the architecture of your computer (use uname -m in a terminal i686 means you should download the i386 package).

Download the NoMachine Client Software for Linux.

NOTE: All managed machines already have the NoMachine client installed. To install the client, you must have permissions to install software on your Windows computer. This should only be necessary if the packaged client is not working for you. These instructions are only necessary if you have to configure the connection yourself.

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