{"id":2302,"date":"2012-04-19T20:10:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T18:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefanov.no-ip.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/remote_vlb_gui\/"},"modified":"2018-07-11T22:39:51","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T20:39:51","slug":"remote_vlb_gui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefanov.no-ip.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/19\/remote_vlb_gui\/","title":{"rendered":"Remote VLB GUI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--?xml version=\"1.0\" standalone=\"yes\"?--><\/p>\n<p>Dear playtesters, let us try to run the program without a local install. Windows will have to fly across the ocean, they will be slow, but it is a lot easier for me to modify the code, and you don&#8217;t need to install any package!<\/p>\n<h2>Mac Users<\/h2>\n<p>These are instructions to run vlbgui from a remote mac. You only need to have X11 installed, a free package distributed by Apple.<\/p>\n<p>To be sure that <span class=\"\" style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #000080; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\">X11<\/span> is installed, go to the <span class=\"\" style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #000080; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\">Utilities<\/span> folder in the <span class=\"\" style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #000080; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\">Applications<\/span> folder, and look for an icon with a big X. If it is present you are ready to launch the battle program.<\/p>\n<p>You may find the releases for the various OSX versions on the following link:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/xquartz.macosforge.org\/trac\/wiki\/Releases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/xquartz.macosforge.org\/trac\/wiki\/Releases<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Assuming that I sent you an email with:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a username: <span class=\"\" style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #000080; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\">yourUsername<\/span><\/li>\n<li>a password: <span class=\"\" style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #000080; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\">yourPassword<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Open a <span class=\"\" style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #000080; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\">Terminal<\/span> window (in the Applications\/Utilities folder), type into the terminal the following sentences which I put <span class=\"\" style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #ff0000; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\">in red letters, please type in spaces between red text as shown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>mm:~ admin$ <span class=\"\" style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #ff0000; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\">ssh -Y yourUsername@stefanov.no-ip.org<\/span> (and press the return key)<br \/>\nThe authenticity of host &#8216;stefanov.no-ip.org (..)&#8217; can&#8217;t be established.<br \/>\nRSA key fingerprint is &#8230;<br \/>\nAre you sure you want to continue connecting (yes\/no)? <span class=\"\" style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #ff0000; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\">yes <\/span>(and press the return key)<br \/>\nWarning: Permanently added &#8216;stefanov.no-ip.org&#8217; (RSA) to the list of known hosts.<br \/>\nPassword: <span class=\"\" style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #ff0000; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\">yourPassword<\/span> <span class=\"\" style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #000080; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\">(it will not appear on screen)<\/span>(and press the return key)<br \/>\nLast login: Tue Apr 10 18:53:57 2012<br \/>\nstefanov:~ $ <span class=\"\" style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #ff0000; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\">vlbgui <\/span>(and press the return key)<br \/>\nA white icon with X should appear in the Dock, then after a while, two windows appear. You need to choose the battle file called Castiglione.xml, which is in your home directory.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You are ready to go now! <span class=\"\" style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #000080; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\">remember to Save from time to time<\/span>, since the program has bugs and will crash.<\/p>\n<h2>Windows users<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you want to connect from a windows machine you can use this free product. It should work but I have not tested yet.<\/p>\n<p>You can startup the X server and connect using Putty.<\/p>\n<p>You type:<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <span class=\"\" style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #ff0000; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\">ssh -Y yourUsername@stefanov.no-ip.org<\/span> <span class=\"\" style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #000080; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\">(yourUsername I will send you, just ask)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Password: <span class=\"\" style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #000080; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\">yourPassword<\/span><br \/>\nLast login: Tue Apr 10 18:53:57 2012<br \/>\n&gt; <span class=\"\" style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #ff0000; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\">vlbgui<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.straightrunning.com\/XmingNotes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.straightrunning.com\/XmingNotes\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Let us play our first remote battle. I have chose a small battle of the 1796 Campaign of Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Here is<a href=\"\/index.php\/ARSM_guests\/VLB_First_Remote_Battle\"> the link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear playtesters, let us try to run the program without a local install. Windows will have to fly across the ocean, they will be slow, but it is a lot easier for me to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-2302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-vlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefanov.no-ip.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefanov.no-ip.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefanov.no-ip.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefanov.no-ip.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefanov.no-ip.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stefanov.no-ip.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7033,"href":"https:\/\/stefanov.no-ip.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions\/7033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefanov.no-ip.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefanov.no-ip.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefanov.no-ip.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}