[X2Go-User] GNOME and Unity can not launch

[Robert Dinse]

      Unfortunately with Unity you have the same issue. Canonical has dropped
Unity-2d support so that's a problem with X2go (and NX) as well.

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On Wed, 8 Apr 2015, Heng Zhou wrote:

> Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 22:12:20 -0400
> From: Heng Zhou <hzhou1 at cs.uml.edu>
> To: Robert Dinse <nanook at eskimo.com>
> Cc: x2go-user <x2go-user at lists.x2go.org>
> Subject: Re: [X2Go-User] GNOME and Unity can not launch
> 
> Thank you for the reply. gnome-shell --version reports 3.10.4 and
> gnome-session --version returns 3.9.90 with no composite extension in the
> server. I am not an administrator of the remote server, so it seems that I
> have to give up gnome. What about Unity then? It's the default GUI for
> ubuntu.
>
> PS: Mate desktop works but I don't know how to play with it.
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 8:28 PM, Robert Dinse <nanook at eskimo.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>      If the server is a modern Linux with Gnome 3 this will happen because
>> Gnome 3 uses a compositing desktop not compatible with X2Go.
>>
>>      For me the fix was to install Mate desktop on the servers which is a
>> fork of Gnome 2 and is compatible with X2Go.
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>> On Wed, 8 Apr 2015, Heng Zhou wrote:
>>
>>  Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 19:43:02 -0400
>>> From: Heng Zhou <hzhou1 at cs.uml.edu>
>>> To: x2go-user at lists.x2go.org
>>> Subject: [X2Go-User] GNOME and Unity can not launch
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I installed the latest X2Go client, but it only works with KDE. When I
>>> tried to launch Unity and GNOME desktop, they always fail. To be specific,
>>> when I selected Unity, the desktop just flashes and disappear. When I
>>> selected GNOME, I got a black desktop window and VcXsrv reports an error
>>> saying "Cannot establish any listening socket - make sure an X server
>>> isn't
>>> already running". The contents of VCXSrv.0.log is:
>>>
>>> _XSERVTransSocketCreateListener: failed to bind listener
>>> _XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
>>> _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to create listener for
>>> inet6
>>> _XSERVTransSocketCreateListener: failed to bind listener
>>> _XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
>>> _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to create listener for inet
>>> (EE)
>>> Fatal server error:
>>> (EE) Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't
>>> already running(EE)
>>> (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
>>>
>>> I have no idea how to check if any X server is running on my computer. All
>>> the settings of X2Go are default. The remote machine is ubuntu 14.04. Any
>>> help? Thanks.
>>>
>>>
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