Re: Using Mathematica remotely (installed on Mac, to be accessed
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- Subject: [mg112646] Re: Using Mathematica remotely (installed on Mac, to be accessed
- From: Michael Stevens <Invalid- at -invalid.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 04:10:48 -0400 (EDT)
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perdalum at gmail.com wrote: > Hi there! > > I have Mathematica installed on a Mac running Snow Leopard and would > occasionally like to use it from another machine. > > I know how to use ssh and tunneling of X11. > > I know that MathKernel is the CLI on Mac. > > But is it possible to run an X11 enabled Mathematica front end on Mac > OS X and thereby getting it to display remotely? > > I think the problem is that the ./Mathematica program in Contents/ > MacOS can't use X11, but I hope there is some undocumented or hidden > feature. > > I will appreciate any help you can give! > > Thanks! > > ..Per > MacOS X supports screen sharing via VNC. Just enable the screen sharing setting in Network Sharing in the System Preferences, and either run a VNC client on the far end or if the far end is another Mac then you use the normal mechanism which, I believe, is in iChat. Cheers