X2go
x2go provides a desktop GUI for users connecting to a Linux server
Download x2go Client
Download x2go client at
https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:installation:x2goclient.
(Mac OS might block it since it's a third party application. Go to "Security & Privacy" in your Mac to allow open x2go client )
Connect
To setup new sessions for hoffman2, open x2go client and input either of the following into the "Host" form.
- x2go1.hoffman2.idre.ucla.edu
- x2go2.hoffman2.idre.ucla.edu
Users can setup multiple sessions connection to different servers with x2go client.
To Add new sessions, click this icon on the top bar. Then a window pops up as "Session Managment".
After login, the desktop Window of your Hoffman2 environment will look like this:
Read more on idre website
Known issue
When using "module load" to load modules in ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile, x2go mistakes the output from "module load" as error messages and will get error when starting a new connection.
Solution:
For example with fsl module, edit your "module load" command in your .bashrc or .bash_profile as following
module load fsl > /dev/null 2>&1
This will redirect the output from "module load" to /dev/null