This lab can be reserved by instructors. If you prefer to work on a PC, eXodus is installed on selected PC workstations in room M051 and M038 in the Computer Center. To use X Windows, you have to connect to login.sp.uconn.edu by whatever protocol is supported by your X-server software. X clients such as aixterm, LoadLeveler, and others may be launched on the remote UNIX machine, and their output displayed back on your local console. Most X Windows emulation packages also support launching clients directly from the Windows or Macintosh desktop.
Some clients support the -ln flag, to execute the user's profile for the shell being initiated.
Some clients also support the -display flag which may be required in some cases, to redirect output back to the user workstation. Clients such as aixterm, xloadl, dtterm, dtpad, and others, can be launched from the UNIX command line, or from the X-server emulation package. Alternatively, the SP supports XDM login, which provides a graphical method for logging in, allowing the user to bypass the need to telnet in. Additional steps may be required, particularly if you are telneting in from another UNIX machine. Macintosh X Windows emulators do this automatically, or allow you to append the display option to any X clients that you launch on the remote UNIX machine.