[X2go-dev] The vanishing mouse - xming source code

[Heinz-M. Graesing]

Hello Brian,
hello List,

since version 3.0-14 which was released on october 14th 2009, we don't 
use xming "as product" any more. The reason was, that we were not happy 
with it (as it was not "free enough").
So we found the following HowTo on freedesktop.org which describes how 
you can build Xorg for windows on your own:

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Xming/Building

The source can also be found inside the upcomming berlios git and in our 
"preparation git":

http://git.x2go.org/?a=tree&p=x2go&h=7ec005a61b74754785840be6626451617b6b6ec5&hb=38b730a075cc77f747acf6fe585e0aeb728dda55&f=windows

The only change we made is to get it running with our plugin.
We can't reproduce the described bug on our systems - so we can't fix it 
at the moment, but we are willing to do so.

best regards,

Alex & Heinz



Am 08.10.2010 18:20, schrieb brian mullan:
> xming v 6.9 source is on SourceForge here
> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/files/Xming-source/6.9.0.31/Xming_69031_source.tar.bz2/download>
>
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>     Message: 3
>     Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 09:37:10 -0400
>     From: Gerry Reno <greno at verizon.net <mailto:greno at verizon.net>>
>     To: x2go-dev at lists.berlios.de <mailto:x2go-dev at lists.berlios.de>
>     Subject: Re: [X2go-dev] The Vanishing Mouse
>     Message-ID: <4CADCD06.8040206 at verizon.net
>     <mailto:4CADCD06.8040206 at verizon.net>>
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>     On 10/07/2010 07:25 AM, --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote:
>      > Hello all,
>      >
>      > it was reported on the list a while ago that somebody was having
>     an issue where the mouse pointer within the X2GO session would
>     disappear.  Well, I finally managed to get the same thing to happen
>     to me this morning while running X2GO under Windows XP Pro.  Even
>     suspending the session and re-connecting does not resolve the
>     problem.  The issue appears to be the version of Xming that is being
>     distributed with X2GO.
>      >
>      > Why do I think this ? I suspended my session again and then
>     killed of Xming via task manager.  This caused the X2GO plugin to
>     fail for which I created a new FF tab and reconnected. I connected
>     straight back to the same session and X instance as before and my
>     mouse pointer was back in the land of the living.
>      >
>      > The question is though how can we resolve this problem ? The 6.9
>     version of Xming that is shipped with X2GO is ~3 years out of date
>     now, and to get the new 7.5 branch one has to subscribe.  Hmmm, this
>     would be fine for a couple of users but when we may be handling
>     100,000 of them it would get a bit pricey :(
>      >
>      > Any thoughts on what can be done ?
>      >
>
>     Xming has a site license for v7.5 available for ? 250 (125 academic).
>     Unlimited users.  So that would not be all that expensive.  The other
>     option is to find the source code for v6.9 and then we debug the
>     vanishing mouse problem and create a patch.
>
>     Regards,
>     Gerry
>
>
>
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