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How exactly does the x11 part work. If I'm working remotely and have XServer running on windows, will it show the program when I hit run?

Or do I need to be logged in through a terminal session separately running the executables through that?

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How exactly does the x11 part work.

We've been asking that question for literally decades.

I've not tried anything with XServer on windows. What we showed in the blog post is setting export DISPLAY=:0.0 to the Pre-Launch command in the project properties. Then when the gui app gets launched from our session it pops open on the remote Linux desktop.

Hmm, I guess I would use a terminal then. I do C++ programming a lot on linux clusters for science. Being able to launch X11 compiled applications remotely would be great. I currently do this using netbeans on windows.

Interesting, give it a try and let me know how it goes. I'd love to talk to you more about your workflow here. Very interesting.

I don't know, but perhaps you could ssh -X and echo "$DISPLAY", then try to export that value instead.

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