X2go

x2go provides a desktop GUI for users connecting to a Linux server

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 mistake the output from "module load" as error messages and will show error when starting a new connection.

Solution:

For example with fsl module:

module load fsl > /dev/null 2>&1

This will redirect the output from "module load" to /dev/null