[X2Go-User] Upcoming Deprecation of EOL Distributions

[Robert Dinse]

      This works for the host machines that no customers login to but not for
the guest machines that are used by many customers with different screen
dimensions.

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On Fri, 26 Aug 2016, Mihai Moldovan wrote:

> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 22:04:15 +0200
> From: Mihai Moldovan <ionic at ionic.de>
> To: Robert Dinse <nanook at eskimo.com>
> Cc: x2go-user at lists.x2go.org
> Subject: Re: [X2Go-User] Upcoming Deprecation of EOL Distributions
> 
> On 26.08.2016 09:42 PM, Mike Gabriel wrote:
>> On Debian and Ubuntu machines, we inject some MATE branding in
>> /etc/X11/Xsession.d/, basically by injecting another path into
>> $XDG_DATA_DIRS (/usr/share/mate).
>>
>> In that directory, you can find some tweaks for default applications
>> and such (debian-mate-default-settings or ubuntu-mate-default-settings
>> by package name).
>>
>> For autostarting applications, MATE strictly follow the XDG specs by
>> freedesktop.org.
>
> A more simple way would be to create a script in ~/bin/, for instance called
> "resize.sh" with this content:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> sleep 30s
> xrandr -s 1680x1050
>
> (Maybe you'll need to adjust the sleeping time, but that's for your
> experimentation.)
>
> Then make sure it's executable via "chmod +x ~/bin/resize.sh".
>
> Then use System -> Preferences -> Startup Applications in MATE and then add a
> new entry calling this script exactly.
>
>
>
> Mihai
>
>