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Global Nav Open Menu Global Nav Close Menu; Apple; Shopping Bag. The XQuartz project is an open-source effort to develop a version of the X.Org X Window System that runs on OS X. Together with supporting libraries and applications, it forms the X11.app that Apple shipped with OS X versions 10.5 through 10.7. Alzip for mac. Quick Download. XQuartz (formerly and often still informally referred to as X11.app) is Apple Inc.' S version of the X server, a component of the X Window System (X11, or shortened to simply X, and sometimes informally X-Windows) for macOS.The name 'XQuartz' derives from Quartz, part of the macOS Core Graphics framework, to which XQuartz connects these applications. XQuartz allows cross-platform applications.

NOTE: As of OS X 10.5 (Leopard) X11 is installed by default. Unless you went out of your way not to install it during the Leopard installation, you’ll find it in /usr/X11

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In preparation for a series of tutorials on The Gimp, this tutorial will guide you in installing X11, a required system for the Gimp to run in OS X.

This tutorial is for OS X 10.4 (Tiger). If you’re a 10.3 (Panther) user, visit this page to download X11 if it’s not on your OS X install CD.

  1. Insert your OS X Tiger Install Disc (#1). Scroll down to locate the Optional Installs icon (it’s embarrassing how long it took me to figure that out) and double-click it
  2. Click Continue on the first screen
  3. Read the Software License Agreement and then click Continue
  4. Click Agree
  5. Select a location and (you guessed it) click Continue
  6. Click the small triangle directly next to Applications and then place a check in the box labeled X11. When you’re ready, click Upgrade.
  7. Enter your password when prompted, and then click OK
  8. The installation won’t take too long
  9. After X11 has successfully installed, click Close
  10. X11 can now be found in Applications >Utilities >X11

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It is common for users of the SoIC Linux systems to want to run graphical applications (such as matlab, mathematica, eclipse, etc) on these Linux servers and display them on their local computers. This document details the steps required to do this for Mac, Windows, and Linux systems.

  1. Install XQuartz on your Mac, which is the official X server software for Mac
  2. Run Applications > Utilities > XQuartz.app

  3. Right click on the XQuartz icon in the dock and select Applications > Terminal. This should bring up a new xterm terminal windows.

  4. In this xterm windows, ssh into the linux system of your choice using the -X argument (secure X11 forwarding). For example, to log into hulk.soic.indiana.edu you would run something like:
    ssh -Y username@hulk.soic.indiana.edu
  5. Once you are logged into the linux system, you can just run the GUI program of your choice (ie. matlab, mathematics, etc) and it will display on your Mac.
  1. Install the Xming software.
  2. If you have not already done so, download putty.exe from the PuTTY site and install it.
  3. Run Xming on your PC to start the X server. You should see the Xming icon in the taskbar if it is running (although you may have to click the little arrow in the taskbar to see it)
  4. Run PuTTY and set things up as follows:
    - Enter the server name in Host Name
    - Make sure the Connection type is set to SSH
    - Enable X11 forwarding (Connection > SSH > X11)
  5. Log in using your normal IU username and passphrase
  6. Once you are logged into the linux system, you can just run the GUI program of your choice (ie. matlab, mathematics, etc) and it will display on your PC.
  1. ssh into the linux system of your choice using the -Y argument (secure X11 Forwarding). For example, to log into hulk.soic.indiana.edu you would run something like:
    ssh -Y username@hulk.soic.indiana.edu
  2. Once you are logged into the remote linux system, you can just run the GUI program of your choice (ie. matlab, mathematics, etc) and it will display on your Mac.

It is also possible to run graphical programs remotely using VNC. This is a popular tool that lets you run a VNC server on the remote linux server and connect to it using a VNC client on your local system. There is more information about this option in Using VNC via ssh tunneling.

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If you have an account on the Carbonate system you can also use Research Desktop (RED) at IU. This allows you to get a graphical desktop on the Carbonate system and, from there, you could use 'ssh -Y' to connect to some other remote linux system and run your GUI programs from there.

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The methods listed above are recommended because they put the least amount of load on the servers and should provide adequate performance. However, there is an alternate method using RDP (Remote Desktop) that will work on some of our Linux servers. For those systems you can connect using the native Remote Desktop client (Windows), the Microsoft Remote Desktop App (Mac OS X), or either xfreerdp or rdesktop (Linux). You will get a full GUI desktop using this method so you can start any GUI application you need. The downside of this approach is that since you are running a full GUI desktop it puts much more load on the server and your performance may suffer. For that reason, we urge you to use the above OS-specific methods and only use RDP as a last resort if those do not work for you.