Now that you’ve completed reading this section, you’ll probably be interested in File Management – Getting your files to and from Monsoon or Linux/Bash Basics. If a pair of eyes appear on your desktop you’ve correctly configured X11 forwarding. You can test that X11 forwarding is working this works by connecting to Monsoon and running the command: Once this is done, you can connect as before. Once `Xming-mesa` is installed and running, open up `putty` again, but before connecting you’ll need to navigate to the menu item on the left side of the window and ‘enable X11 forwarding’ as shown in the picture below. Grab the current Xming, or Xming-mesa, if you have an older client that might need the Mesa renderer instead of OpenGL, and run the setup wizard. You probably want to stick to the stable releases unless there’s a feature in the recent development releases that you can’t live without. It is a background application and will only run with a little status icon in your system tray. Head to the Xming project page and find the releases section. Once installed, you’ll need to make sure this program is running *before* you connect with `putty`. If you’re going to be doing interactive graphical work, you will want to enable the forwarding of X11 windows.
![xming mesa xming mesa](https://cs.indstate.edu/FAQ/PuTTY/img/Xming-install.png)
Xming mesa how to#
If you’re unfamiliar with how to use a Linux system, you may next want to read the document on Linux/Bash Basics. Once you’ve entered your credentials, you should be presented with a prompt on one of the login nodes “wind or rain”. Once you’ve installed PuTTY, open the program and where it prompts you for a “host”, enter You may want to save the session for a handy shortcut later.Ĭlick ‘connect’ and you should be prompted for your NAU user id and password. Ive got Ubuntu 16.04 running in Windows 10 16251.0 as a Linux subsystem, and Ive got Xming-mesa. You’ll need to download and install PuTTY. linuxopenglwindows 10windows-subsystem-for-linuxxming.
![xming mesa xming mesa](https://www.sharcnet.ca/help/images/7/78/Xming-4-PuTTY.png)
Unlike Linux and Mac OSX, there is no in-built ssh client for Windows.