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Can I use X-Win32 to connect to Blackhole?

Why yes you can. Right now we are working on having defaults set for the computers in the CS Department labs so you can connect to blackhole much the same way you can to either abel or cain. For now if you want to connect to bring up an X-Terminal you will have to add the settings manually. If the computer you are using is not setup for connecting to blackhole, follow these steps to set it up manually.

First, start up X-Win32 and right-click on the top title bar, the part that actually says "X-Win32" on it. Then select "X-Win Utility" and the following window should pop up:

The next step will be to select "Edit Sessions" in the X-Win Utility window. Once the next window pops up, you can go ahead and start setting the configurations to the same as the ones below. At first it doesn't look the same, but after you change "Connect Mode" and "XDMCP Mode" the rest of the screen should look right.

Finally you are ready to connect to blackhole. Again you need to right-click on the title bar at the top, this time selecting Sessions -> blackhole.cs.uwec.edu and you should get the following login prompt:

Just enter your username and password. Note that the password prompt doesn't show any charecters to mark what you've typed. Lastly you can hit enter to log in. When you want to end your session, just click on the menu and select "Logout".



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