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User focused command line wrappers around Slurm
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Wrapper for interactive sessions with X11 forwarding #166

Closed chnixi closed 1 year ago

chnixi commented 1 year ago

We have removed the X-forwarding option from crc-interactive.py. It would be good to have an alternative wrapper that launches interactive sessions with X11-forwarding so users can run GUI applications, as described here: https://crc.pitt.edu/resources/htc-cluster/interactive-jobs

djperrefort commented 1 year ago

We had problems with the original X11 implementation because the wrappers tried to enable it automatically. A potential work around would be to add an x11 flag to crc-interactive to manually enable x11 forwarding. Would this work for you?

I'm hesitant to add an entirely new application for such a small feature.

chnixi commented 1 year ago

Yes, that would work well. I forgot what the original issue with X11-forwarding in crc-interactive was so thought it was safer to create a new app, but we can just extend our existing wrapper.