[X2go-User] x2goclient X-forwarding-problem

[Stefan]

Am Friday 15 July 2011 schrieb Stefan:
> Am Freitag, 15. Juli 2011 schrieb Stefan:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I've the following setup:
> >  * a remote Xserver-session on a client via xdmcp and gdm3.
> >  * In this session I want to use x2goclient to access a remote server
> > 
> > Starting a X2go-session with x2goclient I get the following error:
> > 
> > ....
> > ....
> > Info: No suitable cache file found.
> > Info: Forwarding X11 connections to display '192.168.0.50:0.0'.
> > Session: Session started at 'Thu Jul 14 12:12:50 2011'.
> > Warning: X connection failed with error 'Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key'.
> > Session: Session started at 'Thu Jul 14 12:12:16 2011'.
> > Warning: X connection failed with error 'Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key'.
> > 
> > Obviously there is a problem with the access to the xserver. Using kdm
> > (kde4) instead of gdm3 it works (partly). Maybe the difference is, that
> > gdm3 doesn't use ~/.Xauthority any more. See here:
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-
> > bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=586685
> > Maybe the proposed workaround helps here. I'll try.
> 
> As in the bugreport proposed I wrote
> 
> if [[ $XAUTHORITY != ~/.Xauthority ]]; then
>     XAUTHORITY=~/.Xauthority xauth merge $XAUTHORITY
>     export XAUTHORITY=~/.Xauthority
> fi
> 
> in my ~/.xsession file but no success.
> 
> But there is another (maybe bigger) problem:
> 
> giving access to the xserver using
>   xhost +XCLIENT-SERVER # in my case 192.168.0.51
> 
> the x2gosession starts - but ends up in several nameless windows with no
> content. This doesn't happen if I open the x2goclient directly in a
> xserver- session (without window-manager). Than all works fine.
> 
> What does this mean??

I found the mistake. Obviously the there was a misconfiguration while 
upgrading the client - so the desktop-environment wasn't started through the 
command desktop environment in the client settings but as "other application".

So now everything works fine. (apart from gdm3)

stefan