[X2Go-User] X authorization issues

[Robert Dinse]

      It might be something to add to the troubleshooting section of the Wiki.

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On Fri, 10 Apr 2015, Mihai Moldovan wrote:

> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 01:41:02 +0200
> From: Mihai Moldovan <ionic at ionic.de>
> To: Michael DePaulo <mikedep333 at gmail.com>,
>     Christoph Schmidt-Hieber <christsc at gmx.de>
> Cc: "x2go-user at lists.x2go.org" <x2go-user at lists.x2go.org>
> Subject: Re: [X2Go-User] X authorization issues
> 
> On 10.04.2015 12:53 AM, Michael DePaulo wrote:
>> This brings up an issue with our documentation though. We should
>> document (probably on our wiki) that a user's .bashrc / .profile /
>> .bash_profile file can interfere with X2Go. Perhaps we should update
>> the error message in x2goclient also.
>
> Well... this coin has two sides, as always.
>
> X2Go Server's Xsession script sources ${HOME}/.profile. The "default"
> Xsession script provided in Debian as /etc/X11/Xsession does not. On the
> other hand, GDM, LightDM and other login managers would have been
> running into the same problem and not been able to start any desktop
> environment, because they all also source ~/.profile.
>
> Doing questionable stuff in ~/.*profile or ~/.*rc will always lead to
> problems. But putting that on the wiki is like adding "Deleting
> /etc/passwd might cause problems with X2Go" there. It sure will - but
> that's not an insulated X2Go problem.
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> Mihai
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