It will probably show up on your machine after an hour... --Michael (It will probably take *two* hours for my copy of this message to show up on my mail host. Something to do with graylisting.) Dan, if you can write files, you can Export the Graphics object. --rwg On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote: Yes! I can use a command-line interface with the command math (which didn't work until this morning, just a minute ago). However, despite logging in with ssh -X I seem to get no graphical output whatsoever on my home machine. E.g., I type Plot[x^2,{x,1,4}] and Mma responds with the character string -Graphics- but it ain't on my machine! --Damn On 2013-06-21, at 12:30 PM, Neil Sloane wrote: Dan, Can you log in remotely to that system? Then open an x-terminal window Then type math (on most machines it is /usr/common/bin/math ) That should start a command-line version of mathematica On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote: Sheesh, I can't even *get* the text-only interface. When the options box finally gets around to opening, it offer +Notebook, +Slide Show, +Other. Clicking on any one of these, if it has any effect at all, takes to long to see a response that any further messing with this setup is clearly a waste of time. On 2013-06-21, at 11:44 AM, Michael Kleber wrote: Use the text-only interface :-/.