[X2Go-User] Stopping a session from suspending on disconnect

[Stefan Baur]

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(Crossposting/forwarding this to x2go-dev)

Hi guys,

judging from this user feedback, maybe we should change our terminology?
"Detach" (German: "Trennen") seems to be less misleading than
"Suspend" (German: "Anhalten").
At least one of the closed-source, commercial players in the remote
desktop field uses "Trennen" in its German client software, too.

- -Stefan

Am 17.09.2014 um 12:21 schrieb Martyn Welch:
> Ooh, this is embarrassing...
> 
> On 16/09/14 15:41, Stefan Baur wrote: Am 16.09.2014 um 12:01
> schrieb Martyn Welch:
>>>> X2go is generally working well as a replacement (thanks
>>>> guys!), however one complaint that I'm getting from users is
>>>> that x2go suspends sessions on disconnect. Some users have
>>>> graphical tools that they are kicking off to run long tasks
>>>> and want to disconnect, leaving the task to complete (for
>>>> example, over night) without needing the session to be
>>>> maintained. This was the default behaviour in neatx and hence
>>>> the behaviour that the users have come to expect (sessions
>>>> wouldn't suspend on disconnect). Is there any mechanism built
>>>> into x2go to achieve this?
> 
> Are you sure your users actually tried that out and aren't just 
> mislead by the expression "suspend"?  In fact, it is more like
> "detach". You detach the X2Go session, and the virtual screen on
> the server remains running, so you can re-attach at any time.
> 
> 
>> I'd had a few guys independently raise this with me and hadn't
>> actually tested it (it didn't seem unlikely and the "suspend"
>> terminology made it seem plausible).
> 
>> A quick test running a loop in a terminal kinda proved that they
>> were wrong...
> 
>> For anyone reading this in the archive, try:
> 
>> i=0; while [ 1 ]; do echo Count $i; let i=$i+1; sleep 1; done
> 
>> Leave running and disconnect, log back in after a while, you'll
>> see the count has increased proportionally with the time that's
>> past. (Or ssh in separately and watch the PID of the sleep
>> command increment).
> 
> 
>> Sorry for the noise.
> 
>> Martyn
> 
> I think there was a piece of code that would let you renice
> sessions that were in a detached state, so they take up less CPU,
> but I'm not sure if that made it to a stable release yet.  Mike#1
> might know more.
> 
> A full suspend, comparable to a laptop suspend/hibernate, is not 
> something X2Go does.
> 
> -Stefan
> 
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> 

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