[X2go-dev] VcXsrv

John A. Sullivan III jsullivan at opensourcedevel.com
Sat Jan 29 21:19:15 CET 2011


On Sat, 2011-01-29 at 21:09 +0100, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> On Fr 28 Jan 2011 13:47:23 CET Oleksandr Shneyder wrote:
> 
> > I've made some tests on Windows XP and Windows 7 to see if Xming can be
> > replaced with VcXsrv.
> >
> > [... test results ...]
> 
> Your test results fully match my experiences with PyHoca-GUI.
> 
> > What we can do now:
> > - We can provide x2goclient with Xming, but make it configurable to
> > launch other Xserver.
> 
> Configurability is great! (that is a +1 for me for this last option).
> 
> In PyHoca-GUI I already do that. I have introduced a x2config  
> configuration file in ~/.x2goclient (without discussing it before). I  
> drop this in now and maybe you like it and we find a common solution  
> for XServer configuration on Windows.
> 
> Greetings,
> Mike
> 
> <quote>
> [XServers]
> 
> # known XServers, ordered by preference...
> # the first found XServer gets started (Pythonian list syntax -> turn into
> # string, maybe)
> known_xservers = ['VcXsrv', 'Xming', 'Cygwin-X']
> 
> [VcXsrv]
> test_installed = C:\Programme\VcXsrv\vcxsrv.exe
> process_name = vcxsrv.exe
> # the parameters syntax is Pythonian, maybe turn this into a normal
> # string...
> parameters = [':40', '-clipboard', '-multiwindow', '-notrayicon',  
> '-nowinkill']
> display = localhost:40
> run_command = C:\Programme\VcXsrv\vcxsrv.exe
> 
> [Cygwin-X]
> test_installed = C:\cygwin\bin\XWin.exe
> process_name = XWin.exe
> # the parameters syntax is Pythonian, maybe turn this into a normal
> # string...
> parameters = [':40', '-clipboard', '-multiwindow', '-notrayicon',  
> '-nowinkill']
> display = localhost:40
> run_command = C:\cygwin\bin\XWin.exe
> 
> [Xming]
> test_installed = C:\Programme\Xming\Xming.exe
> process_name = Xming.exe
> # the parameters syntax is Pythonian, maybe turn this into a normal
> # string...
> parameters = [':40', '-clipboard', '-multiwindow', '-notrayicon',  
> '-nowinkill']
> display = localhost:40
> run_command = C:\Programme\Xming\Xming.exe
> </quote>
<snip>
Just as a reminder, we probably want to move this code to after the
session parameters are chosen and allow passing the -fullscreen and
-rootless (available area) parameters.  Thanks - John




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