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VScode

Many Users use VScode to connect to Elja but it might be a difficult process to enable visualisation through VScode. Here are instructions to enable xforwarding (visualisation)

Step 1​

First set up XLaunch to enable xforwarding. You can follow the instructions in this chapter here To complete this step.

Step 2​

Open VScode and click on F1 button and type Preferences: Open Settings (UI)

pressF1

Step 3​

Now search for terminal.integrated.env.windows and click on Edit in settings.json like shown in the picture below.

pressF1

Step 4​

After step 3 vscode should open a settings.json file. In there add the following:

    "terminal.integrated.env.windows": {    
        "DISPLAY": "127.0.0.1:0.0"
    },

then save and exit.

Step 5​

In your SSH configuration,varying but mostly common to be in the location .ssh/config file, add in there the following

Host TestX11 #changeable
  HostName elja.hi.is
  User <YOUR_USERNAME>
  ForwardAgent yes
  ForwardX11 yes
  ForwardX11Trusted yes
  IdentityFile <location of private key>

Step 6​

This step requires the user to have the extension remote-SSH.

Connect to Elja by clicking on the green button at the button corner and click on connect to Host... like the following picture shows.

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and then like in the next picture click on the name of The 'HOST', in this case TestX11 you want to connect to.

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Step 7​

Once you've managed to connect to Elja you can check if the xforwarding is working by typing into the terminal xclock like this picture shows: Alt text