[X2Go-User] x2go and xinerama

Orion Poplawski orion at cora.nwra.com
Thu Dec 3 06:21:09 CET 2015


On 12/02/2015 08:34 PM, Dimitri Loizos wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been using x2go for a couple of months now and have been very
> happy with it. My configuration is a server running a virtual
> machine (CentOS) on it and x2go server running on that virtual machine.
> I connect to it through the x2go client on Windows 10.
>
> One of the features that I love about x2go is its support for multiple
> displays on the client side through xinerama. I have 2 monitors and x2go
> treats the session as such. The session will open across both monitors
> and I can easily maximize windows on each of these monitors.
>
> Well, that was until the latest reboot of the server. Now, even though I
> have the xinerama option on, the x2go client treats my 2 monitors as
> one: even though the session opens across both monitors, when I maximize
> a window, it will be maximized across both monitors.
>
> I have tried to reset the client, the server, play with different
> options, but so far to no avail.
>
> Any ideas on how I could get the 2 monitor behavior back?

What version of nx-libs and the OS on the server?  There have been 
issues with Xinerama support in the Fedora/EPEL nx-libs packages 
recently.  See https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?packages=nx-libs

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