[X2Go-User] Desktop does not resize

Robert Dinse nanook at eskimo.com
Sat Oct 8 23:51:09 CEST 2016


      Yes but on Ubuntu 16.04 it is necessary to use the nxlibs from
arctica-project.org repo and the nightly builds of x2go as the older versions
have xrandr 1.2 and Ubuntu 16.04 requires at least 1.3.

      See:

 	https://www.eskimo.com/support/using-linux/ubuntu-16-04-x2go/

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On Sat, 8 Oct 2016, Nigra Truo wrote:

> Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2016 14:37:47 -0700
> From: Nigra Truo <nigratruo at gmail.com>
> To: Robert Dinse <nanook at eskimo.com>
> Cc: x2go-user at lists.x2go.org
> Subject: Re: [X2Go-User] Desktop does not resize
> 
> I'm curious: Does x2goserver work for anyone on Ubuntu 16.04 or Debian 8
> with dynamic screen resizing? Or is this just my configuration, where I
> upgraded from Debian 7? I'm using x2goclient on Debian 8 and that works
> like a charm.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Markus
>
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 9:21 PM, Robert Dinse <nanook at eskimo.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>      Yes, I don't know why it is an issue with Debian 8, I have Debian 8
>> and haven't had that problem, but here is the fix:
>>
>>      These instructions are for Ubuntu 16.04 but work on the Debian based
>> systems derived from it like Mint 18:
>>
>>         https://www.eskimo.com/support/using-linux/ubuntu-16-04-x2go/
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>> On Fri, 7 Oct 2016, Nigra Truo wrote:
>>
>> Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 17:25:26 -0700
>>> From: Nigra Truo <nigratruo at gmail.com>
>>> To: Robert Dinse <nanook at eskimo.com>
>>> Cc: x2go-user at lists.x2go.org
>>> Subject: Re: [X2Go-User] Desktop does not resize
>>>
>>>
>>> xrandr -s (width)x(height)
>>> works if I call it in a terminal, it resizes the Window. But I cannot make
>>> the window bigger after that, and making it smaller does not make the
>>> content smaller. It seems that whatever used to call this xrandr
>>> dynamically when I resize the window, stopped doing that.
>>> I wonder what broken, this is a fresh install (wiped all the preexisting
>>> configs) of all the x2go components on an existing system and on Debian 7
>>> that I had before the upgrade it was working for years without a flaw.
>>> Are there any log files that the x2go server component puts out that I can
>>> take a look at?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Markus
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 5:53 AM, Robert Dinse <nanook at eskimo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>      Which version of which operating system?  In the newer Linux's,
>>>> Fedora 24,
>>>> Ubuntu 16.04, and now Mate 18, there is an issue with the version of
>>>> xrandr.
>>>>
>>>>      You can manually set by calling it from a terminal:
>>>>
>>>>         xrandr -s (width)x(height)
>>>>
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>>>> On Fri, 7 Oct 2016, Nigra Truo wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 05:48:44 -0700
>>>>
>>>>> From: Nigra Truo <nigratruo at gmail.com>
>>>>> To: x2go-user at lists.x2go.org
>>>>> Subject: [X2Go-User] Desktop does not resize
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm having the exact same problem:
>>>>> http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/233163/how-to-fix-x2
>>>>> go-desktop-that-does-not-resize-contents-to-fit-in-remote-desktop-w
>>>>>
>>>>> Except that I erased the .kde config, to start fresh and it did not
>>>>> improve
>>>>> the situation. I also specified 800 x 600 as window size, but x2go
>>>>> resizes
>>>>> the window without me asking to do so to full display size and it is
>>>>> still
>>>>> not enough to display everything, the task bar for example (kde) is off
>>>>> screen.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> Markus
>>>>> --
>>>>> *Por sperto kaj lerno ne sufiÿÿas eterno.*
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> *Por sperto kaj lerno ne sufiÿÿas eterno.*
>>>
>>
>
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> *Por sperto kaj lerno ne sufiÿÿas eterno.*
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