{"id":156,"date":"2015-06-23T18:20:20","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T18:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/?page_id=156"},"modified":"2015-07-15T02:48:35","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T02:48:35","slug":"x2go","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/remote-desktop\/x2go\/","title":{"rendered":"X2Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-top: 20px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20pt; color: #008000;\">Remote Desktop using X2Go<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">X2Go Client<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 X2Go provides a fast secure remote desktop with sound. It work over dial-up or broadband. With broadband, it comes close to being at the console.\u00a0 Even full motion video with sound is possible.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On MacOS, X2Go requires <strong>XQuartz<\/strong>. The native X servers provided with <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Mac OSX 10.7.5 and earlier do not work properly with X2Go. Install <strong>XQuartz<\/strong>, (<em>available free from the Mac Store)<\/em>.\u00a0 In order to have sound support on Mac systems, you will need to install<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedesktop.org\/wiki\/Software\/PulseAudio\/\"> Pulse Audio<\/a> yourself.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 25px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">For <strong>Windows<\/strong> or <strong>Mac<\/strong>, download the X2Go <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">client from the <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.x2go.org\/doku.php\/download:start\">X2Go Download Page<\/a>. For Linux, follow the instructions on the <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.x2go.org\/doku.php\/doc:installation:x2goclient\">X2Go Installation<\/a> page.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 25px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">When you start x2go for the first time, it will pop-up a Session Preferences window. Fill in the Session Name with a name for our server that you will remember such as &#8220;Shellx&#8221;. Fill in the host with fully qualified domain name for the host you would like to use, for example, &#8220;shellx.eskimo.com&#8221;. Fill in the login with your login. The SSH port should be &#8220;<strong>22<\/strong>&#8220;. If you are behind a firewall that blocks port <strong>22<\/strong>, try port <strong>443<\/strong>. For shellx.eskimo.com or scientific.eskimo.com, select either <strong>GNOME<\/strong> or <strong>KDE<\/strong> for the session type. For other Linux shell servers, select <strong>MATE<\/strong> as the session type.Under &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">S<\/span>ettings&#8221;, you can set the <strong>fullscreen<\/strong> option or<\/span>Click on <span style=\"padding: 3px 20px; border: 1px solid #a0a0a0; border-radius: 4px; background-color: #e8e8e8;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">O<\/span>K<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-159 size-full\" style=\"margin-top: 15px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/x2go1.png\" alt=\"x2go1\" width=\"600\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/x2go1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/x2go1-300x283.png 300w, https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/x2go1-318x300.png 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 25px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The newly created session will now appear on the right side of the client window. Click on it to connect.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/x2go2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-163\" style=\"margin-top: 15px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/x2go2.png\" alt=\"x2go2\" width=\"600\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/x2go2.png 600w, https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/x2go2-300x235.png 300w, https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/x2go2-383x300.png 383w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 25px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Fill in your password, then click on <span style=\"padding: 3px 20px; border: 1px solid #a0a0a0; border-radius: 4px; background-color: #e8e8e8;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">O<\/span>K<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/x2go3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-164\" style=\"margin-top: 15px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/x2go3.png\" alt=\"x2go3\" width=\"600\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/x2go3.png 600w, https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/x2go3-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/x2go3-486x300.png 486w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 25px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">If you have not connected to shellx with ssh, you will get a pop-up. Click on <span style=\"padding: 2px 15px; margin: 2px; border: 1px solid #a0a0a0; border-radius: 4px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Yes<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/x2go4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-165\" style=\"margin-top: 15px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/x2go4.png\" alt=\"x2go4\" width=\"600\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/x2go4.png 600w, https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/x2go4-300x89.png 300w, https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/x2go4-500x148.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 25px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Your session should come up with a Desktop similiar to the image below (except the dock won&#8217;t be present unless you are using MacOS X).<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/desktop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-166\" style=\"margin-top: 15px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/desktop.jpg\" alt=\"desktop\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/desktop.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/desktop-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/desktop-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 25px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Enjoy! To end the session and logout, click on your username in the upper right hand portion of the screen.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 25px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">If you don&#8217;t have a shell account here, now is an excellent time to find out what you&#8217;ve been missing! <a href=\"\/services\/free-trial\/\" target=\"_blank\">Apply for a free two week trial!<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remote Desktop using X2Go X2Go Client \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 X2Go provides a fast secure remote desktop with sound. It work over dial-up or broadband. With broadband, it comes close to being at the console.\u00a0 Even full motion video with sound is possible. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/remote-desktop\/x2go\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":126,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"showcase.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-156","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}