[X2Go-User] Running without window/desktop manager

Marat Khalili mkh at rqc.ru
Wed Apr 12 07:58:05 CEST 2017


Well, it works somehow, that's why I'm asking. I cannot open remote 
desktop obviously, but I can start applications using Published 
Applications feature without any problems (at least for xterm and firefox).


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With Best Regards,
Marat Khalili

On 11/04/17 17:24, Robert Dinse wrote:
>
>      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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