[X2Go-User] Running without window/desktop manager

[Robert Dinse]

      I don't understand how you expect this to work without a Window
manager?  Mate works well with x2go on a wide variety of Linux distributions.
It currently is broken on Fedora 26.

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On Tue, 11 Apr 2017, Marat Khalili wrote:

> Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 16:44:58 +0300
> From: Marat Khalili <mkh at rqc.ru>
> To: x2go users <x2go-user at lists.x2go.org>
> Subject: [X2Go-User] Running without window/desktop manager
> 
> Dear all,
>
> I'm new to X2Go having used FreeNX previously. I've installed x2goserver on 
> Ubuntu 16.04 server from ppa:x2go/stable, and can start published 
> applications successfully. However, I didn't install any window or desktop 
> manager, since I don't think my clients will need it. Neither did I install 
> any bindings. I wonder, what features do I lose this way?
>
> Particularly, neither local printing nor shared folders seem to work (tested 
> from Windows and Ubuntu 14.04 stock client), can this be related, or is it a 
> separate problem? Directory ~/media/disk exists, but it is empty; and only 
> "Print to File" is available in remote Firefox. If window/desktop manager is 
> needed, which should I install to handle just this problem? Do I need 
> bindings package too?
>
> (I'd prefer not to have unnecessary packages on my server to avoid frequent 
> security updates.)
>
>
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>
> With Best Regards,
> Marat Khalili
>
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