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Connect to Linux hosts through x2go from a Windows computer (graphical login)
Open your web browser and navigate to the x2go client download website here:
Click on "Download X2go for MS Windows".
Click on "releases", then the latest available release (4.0.0.3 at the time this document was written). Download the file and open the containing folder. Double-click this file to initiate the installation of the x2go client for Windows:
Choose your installation language and click "OK".
Follow the instructions on screen to install x2go client for Windows onto your computer.
When the installation was successful, you should be prompted with the following confirmation dialog:
Now, open up your Windows applications menu (click Start→All Programs) and choose "X2go Client for Windows", then "X2goClient":
The main window of the X2go client will open and show a dialog to configure a new session upon first start:
Use "session name" to name this session for later reference, type the name of the computer you want to connect to into the field "host" (login.physik.fu-berlin.de in this case), your username in the field "Login" and use the drop-down box below "Session type" to choose the graphical user interface you would like to use for login (the same way you would do when logging in to a Linux computer locally):
Connect to Linux hosts through x2go from a Linux computer (graphical login)
