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--- other:x_conf [2022/08/08 15:05] – [Installing VcXsrv] jypeter
+++ other:x_conf [2022/08/08 15:24] – [On a Windows computer with PuTTY and an X server installed] jypeter
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 ===== Using an X server on Linux =====
-Linux computers come pre-configured with a running X server (because they need it for displaying local graphics) that will display the graphics generated locally and on remote Linux servers. **You don't need to do anything special!**
+Linux computers come pre-configured with a running //X server// that will display the graphics generated locally and on remote Linux servers
+**You don't need to do anything special!**
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 ==== If you are connecting with ssh ====
-Nothing special to do!
+Nothing special to do if you are using [[other:ssh#using_an_x_server_to_display_graphics|"ssh -X" or "ssh -Y"]]
 ==== If you are using WSL ====
-If you have installed [[other:win10wsl|WSL+Ubuntu]] on your local machine, and you need your X server to display graphics generated in WSL, you need to define the DISPLAY variable: ''export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0''
+If you have installed [[other:win10wsl|WSL+Ubuntu]] on your local machine, and you need your //X server// to display local graphics generated in WSL, you need to **define the ''DISPLAY'' variable** in your terminal:
+  * //bash// shell: ''export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0''
+  * //tcsh// shell: ''setenv DISPLAY localhost:0.0''
+  * You probably want to define the ''DISPLAY'' variable automatically in one of the shell configuration files
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   * Open a terminal and check that the ''DISPLAY'' environment variable is correctly defined on the local machine
   * Connect to the remote machine
-  * Check that a (new) ''DISPLAY'' variable is defined on the remote machine
+  * Check that a (new) ''DISPLAY'' variable is automatically defined on the remote machine
   * Check that you can start an application using graphics (e.g. ''xterm'') on the remote machine
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 ==== On a Windows computer with PuTTY and an X server installed ====
-We assume here that [[other:putty_conf|PuTTY is already installed and configured]]
+We assume here that [[other:putty_conf|PuTTY is already installed and configured]] and **correctly** configured (with ''Enable X11 forwarding'')
-We just have to open a pre-configured //Session// on a remote server
+We just have to open a pre-configured //PuTTY Session// on a remote server
 <code>[Remote] $ hostname
 name_of_the_remote_server