[X2Go-Dev] Different behavior of X2Go Client from Desktop and TCE

[Walid MOGHRABI]

> I am getting more an more confused about the TCE stuff. Is there a 
> difference between TCE you are talking about and the x2gothinclient 
> Alex is working on? 

Let me clarify then :

TCE is just a micro Linux starting X2Goclient with the --thinclient option in fullscreen (mostly).

There are some other implementations such as "mini desktop" which, to me, is not a "real" Thin Client since you just start a smaller Linux distro with a few local apps (such as web browser) and the X2Go client installed as a local app but I'm not talking about this since this is just x2goclient in local desktop mode.

By default, the x2gothinclient-displaymanager package built by Alex don't have any WM dependencies and thus, if you do a very lightweight TCE setup (aka debootstrap Debian/Ubuntu and install x2gothinclient-displaymanager package), it will only install minimal dependencies such as Xorg libs, x2goclient and a buch of scripts to start it at boot time but no WM.
Since there is no WM, xinerama is not working properly and everything is OK with this setup unless you have a dual head (or more) display and in this case, your multiple monitors are used but x2goagent only see ONE huge display that stretches over your screens and not a proper multihead display with multiple monitors the way you have when using a local desktop.

Simply spawning a minimalistic WM such as OpenBox before starting X2Goclient fixes this issue.

Regards,
Walid Moghrabi

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----- Mail original ----- 

De: "Ulrich Sibiller" <ulrich.sibiller at gmail.com> 
À: "Stefan Baur" <X2Go-ML-1 at baur-itcs.de> 
Cc: "Walid MOGHRABI" <w.moghrabi at servicemagic.eu>, x2go-dev at lists.x2go.org 
Envoyé: Vendredi 18 Mai 2018 09:57:31 
Objet: Re: [X2Go-Dev] Different behavior of X2Go Client from Desktop and TCE 

On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 9:47 AM, Stefan Baur <X2Go-ML-1 at baur-itcs.de> wrote: 
> Walid, 
> 
> the proper way to handle this is to set the "MP disable" command *in 
> X2GoClient*, but *only when* X2GoClient is called with *--thinclient*, 
> because that is the option used to tell X2GoClient it is in TCE mode. 
> 
> And the workaround with the un-minimizing daemon you are talking about 
> is the deprecated one anyways. 

I am getting more an more confused about the TCE stuff. Is there a 
difference between TCE you are talking about and the x2gothinclient 
Alex is working on? 

Uli
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