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GethinWilliams: /* Installation */

2009-01-19T09:58:21Z

Installation

GethinWilliams at 13:45, 16 January 2009

2009-01-16T13:45:51Z

GethinWilliams: /* PCs and Administrator Access */

2009-01-16T13:45:13Z

PCs and Administrator Access

GethinWilliams at 13:44, 16 January 2009

2009-01-16T13:44:58Z

GethinWilliams at 11:38, 16 January 2009

2009-01-16T11:38:04Z

GethinWilliams at 11:37, 16 January 2009

2009-01-16T11:37:54Z

New page

<pre>
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming
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download:

* Xming-mesa
* Xming-portable-PuTTy

Both are simple to install.

You must '''enable X11 forwarding''' under PuTTy. To do this expand the SSH tree from the LHS of the startup window and click on X11.

You can connect to dartagnan and both ChomboVis and VisIt will render on your windows display.

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 * Xming-mesa
 and optionally (although it Xming will work with the SSH Secure Shell from SSH Communications Security Corp that you may well already have installed on your PC):
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 * Xming-portable-PuTTy
-Both are simple to install.
+All are simple to install.
 You must '''enable X11 forwarding''' in your SSH client:

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 *  If you have elected to install PuTTy, expand the SSH tree from the LHS of the startup window and click on X11.
 *  For SSH Secure Shell, go to Edit->Settings and then Profile Settings->Connections->Tunneling
 You can then connect to, e.g., dartagnan and both ChomboVis and VisIt will render on your windows display.

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 ==PCs and Administrator Access==
-You should not routinely use your PC with an account that has administrator rights as it is a sever security risk.  See:
+'''You should not routinely use your PC with an account that has administrator rights as it is a sever security risk'''.  See:
 * http://www.bris.ac.uk/is/computing/advice/security/protectcomp/owncomp/adminrights.html

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+=Introduction=
-download:
+Both ChomboVis and VisIt make use of the OpenGL graphics libraries.  Unfortunately, the Exceed X-Windows server that you are likely to have installed on you PC cannot handle OpenGL.  There is another version of Exceed, called Exceed 3D, but to use it, we would require an additional license.  Alternatively, there is an open-source X-server called '''Xming''' which we can use and which does handle applications using OpenGL.
 * Xming-mesa
 * Xming-portable-PuTTy
 Both are simple to install.
-You must '''enable X11 forwarding''' under PuTTy.  To do this expand the SSH tree from the LHS of the startup window and click on X11.
+You must '''enable X11 forwarding''' in your SSH client:
-You can connect to dartagnan and both ChomboVis and VisIt will render on your windows display.
+You can then connect to, e.g., dartagnan and both ChomboVis and VisIt will render on your windows display.