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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in; background:white">I was reviewing the X11 documentation</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""></span><a href="https://slurm.schedmd.com/faq.html#terminal"><span style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in; background:white">https://slurm.schedmd.com/faq.html#terminal</span></span><span style=""></span></a><span style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in; background:white"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""></span><a href="https://slurm.schedmd.com/faq.html#x11"><span style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in; background:white">https://slurm.schedmd.com/faq.html#x11</span></span><span style=""></span></a><span style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:#1578B7; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in; background:white"></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:#1578B7; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in; background:white">15. Can tasks be launched with a remote terminal?</span></i></b></span><span style=""></span><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:#46545C"><br>
<span style="background:white">In Slurm version 1.3 or higher, use srun's <span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">--pty</span> option. Until then, you can accomplish this by starting an appropriate program or script. In the simplest case (X11
over TCP with the DISPLAY environment already set), executing <span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">srun xterm
</span>may suffice.</span></span></i><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:#1578B7; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in; background:white"></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">At our site, indeed this is sufficient. We are using the <a href="https://github.com/hautreux/slurm-spank-x11">https://github.com/hautreux/slurm-spank-x11</a> plugin currently.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I see that in the 17.11.0 announcement</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#222222; background:white"> -- X11 support is now fully integrated with the main Slurm code. </span></i><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#222222"><br>
<span style="background:white">Remove any </span><br>
<span style="background:white"> X11 plugin configured in your plugstack.conf file to avoid errors being </span><br>
<span style="background:white"> logged about conflicting options. </span></span></i><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Questions</span></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">If ‘srun —x11’ is not needed to X11 forward (the simplest case works), do we encourage users to use it? I’m more in need of understanding how it works because some users use
it, some do not, and more education on this would be great.</span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Is the SLURM spank x11 plugin now unnecessary once we build 17.11.0 with the updated configuration?</span></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thanks,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Kevin</span></p>
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