How to Run an X-Windows Session

If you are tired of having a single window open on morbius, you want to try X-Windows.

X-Windows is an Open Source windowing system developed roughly 25 years ago to run on Unix workstations

1. Get an X client for your local machine. Best: Run Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, etc. Windows? Try Xwin32. Good luck.
2. Local: Start your X client
3. Local: xhost morbius.mscs.mu.edu
   This tells your local machine to accept X commands from morbius. Otherwise, anyone in the world could pop up windows on your machine. If you want that, run Internet Explorer :-)
4. Local: ssh morbius.mscs.mu.edu
   Log in
5. Next, you need to tell morbius where it should send windowing commands, so you need to know your local IP address. For example:
   morbius: env
   Look for SSH client, e.g. SSH_CLIENT=134.48.168.124
   Or, Max suggests www.whatismyip.com
6. morbius: export DISPLAY=134.48.168.124:0.0
7. morbius: xterm &
8. Also: xeyes &, xclock &; emacs &; etc.

On Windows, Max suggests "Minor note, inside the windows version of SSH program, there is a tunneling option, this should be enabled (or checked). This will allow you to send to such programs as Xwin32."

Firewalls and VPN's present additional challenges.

Enjoy!