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Only max-nova and max-display are currently featuring GPU acceleration and node-clustering. The table below summarizes sum of the features of the various login nodes. The older FastX client prior to v2. This should create a new entry in the list. Advanced Features FastX 3 offers advanced features for high level users. It should work with all commonly used browsers.

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Don't alter the "Sci". Download Free Trial of FastX. The older FastX client prior to v2. There are different factors influencing proper detection of the keyboard layout like locale or region settings, browser setting.

Loaded with Features The ability to see your Linux desktop inside a web browser is just the beginning of an extensive set of basic to advanced features FastX has to offer end users and administrators. Frank Schluenzen posted on Changing the size might occasionally require to toggle the resize mode 2nd button on the panel. If you need remote assistance please get in touch with UCO and have a look at http: If your popup blocker is preventing the automatic start of your session select your session from the list.

The colleague with the link will see a "login-window" like this, allowing to identify himself. The FastX2 client is more convenient to use, has usually better performance and works on all nodes, even those without the web-service available.

Select Keyboard layouts which adds the flags for the layouts configured. This should open a new window. Resist the temptation to use unity. Start an xfce session. To fully benefit from the clustering feature cient max-display and max-nova, you should use a web-based connection method in the FastX2 client, for all others use the pure ssh-connection, see below.

It will use your c,ient username as a default. The sharing button allows you to share a session with other users and even hand over controls.

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Please noteFastX2 is not intended for remote assistance! Add a panel item by right-click on the panel. With the pin you can keep the mini-panel open.

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The FastX2 web application allows to share a desktop session with arbitrary users, and even hand over keyboard rastx to third parties. XFCE is much more lightweight, hence less resource consuming, and doesn't rely so much on hardware acceleration.

It might cause some problems in certain environments.

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Best 3-D Graphics Whether you are mapping an oil field, designing a jet engine, analyzing a molecule, or projecting global climate changes, FastX provides high-speed display of 3D and OpenGL-based graphics. Add a keyboard layout by right-click on the desktop and select the Keyboard setup. The download linked under "Client" in the table above should however work for all server installations. Use netinstall package if possible; download if not. Double click on that - it should try to connect.

You cliient to point the FastX2-client or browser to max-p3a to be able to resume the session.

Usually that shouldn't matter much, since the different login nodes serve rather different purposes. For all other nodes you have to remember the node your session was running on to be able to re-connect to that session! A session suspended for more than 24 hours might become unresponsive.