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Updates doc for X11 support
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remram44 committed Feb 5, 2015
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Yes! The `reprounzip` component should have no problems with experiments that interact with the user through the terminal. If your experiment runs until it receives a Ctrl+C signal, that is fine as well: ReproZip will not interfere unless you press Ctrl+C twice, stopping the experiment.

Note, however, that running GUI tools (connecting to an X server) is yet not supported by ReproZip.
GUI tools are also supported, see next section.

Can ReproZip pack graphical (GUI) tools?
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On Linux, graphical display is handled by the X server, to which applications can connect as clients to display their windows and components, and get user input.

Most unpackers now support forwarding the X connection from the experiment to the X server running on your machine. Note that you will need a running X server for this to work, such as `Xming <http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/>`_ for Windows or `XQuartz <http://xquartz.macosforge.org/>`_ for Mac OS. If you are running Linux, chances are that an X server is already configured and running.

Note that X support is not enabled by default; use the ``--enable-x11`` flag to your unpacker of choice's ``run`` command to use it.

What if my experiment runs on a distributed environment?
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