[X2Go-User] x2go and Ubuntu 18.04 server

Robert Dinse nanook at eskimo.com
Thu Feb 28 23:33:01 CET 2019


      You need a desktop environment.  If you are using the default gnome,
then you also need gnome-flashback-session.  Else install mate which works
perfectly with x2go.

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On Thu, 28 Feb 2019, Stefan Baur wrote:

> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 12:15:33 +0100
> From: Stefan Baur <X2Go-ML-1 at baur-itcs.de>
> To: x2go-user at lists.x2go.org
> Cc: Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel at das-netzwerkteam.de>
> Subject: Re: [X2Go-User] x2go and Ubuntu 18.04 server
> 
> Am 28.02.19 um 10:42 schrieb Heiko Friedel:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm trying to use x2go-server on a headless machine for virt-manager
>> with x2go-client on Win10. I did not install any desktop environment.
>>
>> x2go terminates the connection immediately, no window is shown. If I use
>> VcXsrv with putty, virt-manager is working fine.
>
> CCing Mike#1, as he has some python knowledge and virt-manager is a
> python program (called by a bash wrapper, no idea why) ...
>
> What seems to happen is that X2Go doesn't detect virt-manager as an X
> application.
>
> If I write a wrapper script like so:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> timeout 10 xterm & # background xterm, don't call virt-manager from it
> /usr/bin/virt-manager
>
> Then virt-manager will start - but will die after 10 seconds, when
> "timeout" kills the backgrounded, empty, idle xterm session.
> I would understand this behavior if virt-manager was called from
> *within* xterm, but as you can see, it is called separately.
>
> @Mike: Any idea as to what's going wrong here and how to fix it?
>
> Kind Regards,
> Stefan Baur
>
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