[X2go-dev] Testing X2go3

[Brian Moss]

Paul did you sort out your problems with resolution?

I tested connecting, not to local host but to an Amazon EC2 instance, and
the text was the same size regardless of the resolution. I tested with
600x800, 1280x1024 and fullscreen with the Qt client.

Bri

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 3:06 AM, Paul van der Vlis <paul at vandervlis.nl>wrote:

> Brian Moss schreef:
> > Paul it is good to here from you, this ML is unfortunatly fairly
> > dormant. But I hope we can help each other, and anyone else out there
> > listening.
> >
> >  I am also testing x2go 3 on debian lennny, plus lenny-backports.
>
> Nice to hear there are more people ;-)
>
> > I am in transit right now but will be able to test out your use cases
> > and see if I have the same problems.
> >
> > An issue I am having currently is when launching just an application
> > not the whole desktop session. When clicking on a menu, say in
> > OpenOffice, the menu appears to be opening just for a second as if the
> > window was maximized full screen and then quickly resizes to fit the
> > true window size.
>
> Hmm, look-likes my problems with the resolution.
>
> I have not tried to launch only an application, interesting to know that
> that is possible.
>
> > My client is Ubuntu Jaunty using the gtk client packages for ubuntu.
>
> I use Lenny as client and server. My tests where even to localhost ;-)
>
> > I
> > need to retest my use case after removing compiz on the client, just
> > to make sure that it is not the problem.
>
> I don't think so. I have no Compiz installed here.
>
> > I am also interested in using Jaunty on the server and am collecting
> > information that I will soon post to my wiki about getting that
> > working. Not sure if that interests you.
>
> I like Debian, because it has security support for much more
> applications then Ubuntu. And because I like the Debian community a bit
> more then the Ubuntu-community.
>
> > There is also a forum that is quite active, but it is German and I
> > only speak english and a little french - from Canada. I have been
> > using google translate and there is lots of good information there to
> > view.
>
> I've seen it, but the latest messages are from a few month ago too.
> And I think this is strange when there is a brand-new X2go version, not
> even an announcement for the new version.
>
> I speak German, no problem for me, but I think it's not a good idea to
> have a German list, because there are many people who do not understand
> German, and all IT-people do speak some English.
>
> Further, I don't like forums. Best would be a mailinglist with
> integrated forum, but I don't know software what can do that...
>
> With regards,
> Paul van der Vlis.
>
> > Regards
> >
> > Happy x2going,
> >
> > Brian
> >
> >
> >
> > On 5/23/09, Paul van der Vlis <paul at vandervlis.nl> wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I am testing X2go3 on Debian Lenny. I use FreeNX for a long time so I
> >> have some experience with NX. I really like the fact that you have
> >> clients under GPL, and Debian packages ;-)
> >>
> >> My montior has a 1680x1050 resolution. When I use a 800x600 screen
> >> (default), the screen opens first on 800x600 but switches then to "max.
> >> space availabele", in my case 1672x972 (space without Gnome panels). The
> >> fonts are much bigger then normal. When I use "fullscreen" the client
> >> opens fullscreen, but the fonts are much too small. When I use
> >> "1280x1024" the client opens at 1280x1024 and switches to "max space
> >> available", in my case 1672x972, now the fonts seem to be OK!  This is
> >> so in both the KDE client and the GTK client, I did test to "localhost".
> >>
> >> When I log-off a session, I see a message that I am logged in as user
> >> "Unknown". But "whoami" says I am user "paul", strange.
> >>
> >> Why don't I see an annoucement for the new version in the mailinglist,
> >> is there maybe another form of communication?
> >>
> >> I see in the header that there is an organisation what gives payed
> >> support for X2go. But I cannot click on it, and do not understand which
> >> firm it is. http://www.x2go.org/fileadmin/media/header_01.png
> >>
> >> The "donation" function does not work, I get a blank page.
> >>
> >> Keep on the good work!
> >>
> >> With regards,
> >> Paul van der Vlis.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> http://www.vandervlis.nl/
> >>
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> Met vriendelijke groet,
> Paul van der Vlis.
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