I agree with you on that one - I'd forgotten about that detail. The having to actually do an 'ssh -X' before you can do 'srun --x11' is quite silly, and a bit aggravating.
You can do 'ssh -X localhost' and then try the srun; that should work, as well. Tina On 21/11/2018 18:04, Mahmood Naderan wrote: > >The 'fix' for Mahmood would be to ssh to another host and then submit > >the X11 job. > > The idea is to have a job manager that find the best node for a newly > submitted job. If the user has to manually ssh to a node, why one should > use slurm or any other thing? > > Regards, > Mahmood > > > >
