Connect to an Instance using X2Go

Start the program from your desktop

Or look for it in your start menu

You may get a message like this, it only affects some features you don’t need.

N.B - on some versions of windows you might get a different message - select ‘keep blocking’ or ‘cancel’

Click on cancel

You should see the main screen

Now you need to tell your computer where to connect to:

[ on a new installation you may not need to perform this step - the Session dialog will load automatically - if it doesn’t …..]

Click on the ‘new session’ icon to set up a new connection

Enter the information as higlighted above

Make sure you use the IP address you copied earlier and use an appropriate name.

Once this has been done we need to change the display settings so you can work comfortably at the correct screen resolution

Select the ‘Input/Output’ tab at the top and change the display to use the whole display as shown below:

Once completed, click on OK

Your screen should now look like this:

Click anywhere in the white area

The first time you connect to your instance (or if the IP address changes after a reboot) you will see a message like:

click Yes.

Enter the password given to you by your instructor:

Click ‘yes’ to continue

After a minute or so, you should see the connection open as below:

Congratulations!

You might find it simplest to start up FireFox on you virtual machine desktop and continue the tutorial from there.

You are now ready to start the workshop proper.