Making your PC into an X windows environment

1. Install cygwin/XFree86 onto your PC. Be sure to install all the options and utilities especially for xwindows.
2. Open (run) cygwin from your PC. (You probably have a desktop icon after the installation.)
3. When you run cygwin, it automatically places you into a unix shell. Now from that shell you want to start Xwindows. At the prompt type:
        startx
   this will start Xwindows on your PC (be patient it takes a few seconds).
4. Once Xwindows is running open a terminal window if one did not automatically open. At the shell prompt, connect to one of the SEU CS Linux boxes using a secure shell connection and an X windows terminal.
        ssh     yourloginname@206.127.25.210    -X
   Example:
        ssh     lbaker@206.127.25.210    -X
   
   
5. At the prompt, give your password for your login name for the CS node.
6. Now you should have a linux connection in the terminal window and it will be running Xwindows ! Your mouse and GUI should all be active. Emacs will work quite nicely.