Systems

The Informatics Remote Desktop gives you a graphical login on DICE, displaying on another computer.

This page explains how to access the Remote Desktop service from a Windows PC. It has been tested on Windows 10 and 11.

You will need to use either the University or School VPN. If you don't, you won't get access to the Remote Desktop service - unless your computer is already on the University of Edinburgh network (for example in an office or a computing lab).

The Informatics Remote Desktop gives you a graphical login on DICE, displaying on another computer.

This page tells you how to access the Informatics Remote Desktop service from an iOS or iPadOS device - probably an Apple iPhone or iPad. You will need to install an app, then configure it, then connect to the service. Installing and configuring only have to be done once.

With the Informatics Remote Desktop service, you can get a graphical login to DICE Linux. You can use it from anywhere, on any device which has RDP client software.
You connect to a DICE remote desktop server. If you have a DICE computer allocated to you, you can connect to that instead.

If you just need a text-only login, you can use ssh instead.

How to get started with remote desktop

First, configure your device. These pages tell you how to do that:

GNOME is one of the window environments available on DICE. (There are others - see Window managers.)

To lock the screen in GNOME, either select the lock icon which is found at the right-end of the bar at the top of the screen:

Or press the left Super key (the key which usually has a Microsoft Windows logo, typically between Ctrl and Alt), then type lock, then select the DICE Screen Lock icon which appears.