[X2go-dev] x2go with Gnome 3 ?

John A. Sullivan III jsullivan at opensourcedevel.com
Tue May 3 23:06:52 CEST 2011


On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 21:59 +0200, Milan Knížek wrote:
> V Mon, 2 May 2011 02:15:38 -0700
> John Williams <jwilliams4200 at gmail.com> napsáno:
> 
> > Has anyone successfully run x2goserver(-one) with Gnome 3 ?
> > 
> > I just upgraded my Archlinux system to Gnome 3, and x2goserver-one
> > stopped working with Gnome. It gave a message about hardware not being
> > suitable and it is reverting to gnome fallback. Unfortunately, it
> > seems it was a one-time message, but I cannot get the message back,
> > otherwise I would post the exact error message. What happens is that I
> > end up with an x2go session with a plain desktop and a couple menus of
> > apps, and that is all.
> >
> Gnome 3 requires a hw support from the video card. Before the upgrade,
> have you successfully used some compositing window manager through x2go
> (compiz, metacity with compositing enabled)? I doubt so...
> 
> Up until now, I have not heard any news that Gnome 3 would provide a
> fallback, which would be visually similar to the "normal" Gnome 3.
> (Canonical has such a plan for its Unity - to be released in autumn
> 2011.)
> 
> This is by the way the reason, why I am in a search for a GNOME
> replacement...
<snip> Interesting.  Sounds similar to our desire to stay with KDE3
rather than transition to KDE4 thus we've been using the Trinity desktop
(http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net) - John




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