X2Go Thin Client Environment (1.5.0.0) released

Dear all

The X2Go project is proud to announce a new release of the X2Go component ,,x2gothinclient''.

New gains of this version of ,,x2gothinclient'' are:

o new flavor: MATE minidesktop (in addition to X2Go Client as displaymanager) o many bug fixes, for instance for Xinerama and PulseAudio support/integration and USB-based mounts o support for Debian stretch o updated translations o CD manager/power ejection utility ported to Qt5

The X2Go Project thanks Mark Pedersen-Cook, Kaan Ozdincer, Martti Pitkänen and Thierry Kauffmann for improving the internationalization support of our software.

X2Go Component: x2gothinclient Version: 1.5.0.0 Status: RELEASE Timestamp: 1543720228 Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2018 04:10:28 +0100 Fixes these bug report(s): 419 718 719 726 840 997 1092 1136 1147 Changes: x2gothinclient (1.5.0.0) RELEASED; urgency=low . [ Mike Gabriel ]

• New upstream release (1.5.0.0):
  • Stop advertising GNOME in default session profile. Switching to MATE.
  • Use type=auto for automatic keyboard detection as default in example session profiles.
  • Avoid error message in x2gothinclient_shell if the chroot does not have a file-or-symlink /etc/resolv.conf.
  • Use resolv.conf file from host system when running x2gothinclient_upgrade.
  • Add COPYING file.
  • Run x2gothinclient_shell and x2gothinclient_upgrade with LANG=C.
  • Don't run x2gothinclient_init inside TCE chroot operations (x2gothinclient_shell or x2gothinclient_upgrade).
  • Avoid x2gothinclient_init failures, use if..then..fi instead of the test command.
  • Init scripts: Provide status option.
  • Use lazy unmounts for unmounting bind-mounted /proc, /sys, /dev/pts after exiting the TCE chroot (x2gothinclient_create, x2gothinclient_shell, x2gothinclient_upgrade, x2gothinclient_cleanup).
  • Assure that a tmpfs under <chroot>/root gets mounted and cleanly unmounted (x2gothinclient_shell, x2gothinclient_upgrade).
  • Use run-parts to initialize the TCE during runtime. (Fixes: #419).
  • New TCE component: x2gothinclient-minidesktop. Instead of using X2Go Client as login manager, we launch a minimal MATE desktop and connect to X2Go sessions from there. . Add WindowList applet to MATE panel. . On $HOME creation, copy x2gothinclient-minidesktop.desktop into ~/Desktop. . Provide init script for x2gothinclient-minidesktop to handle maintenance tasks if TCE is installed with in minidesktop flavour. . Tweak MATE minidesktop via GScheme overrides. . Launch MATE minidesktop via LightDM autologin feature. . Add XDG autostart .desktop file for the TCE's X2Go Client. . Add VERSION.<package> file for x2gothinclient-minidesktop. . Make X2Go TCE layout / appearance overridable by installing debian-edu-artwork package. . Use default X2Go Client background for x2gothinclient-minidesktop. Provide configurable desktop background instead. Install desktop background as desktop-base alternative. . On minidesktop TCE creation based on wheezy, pull in packages from wheezy-backports (i.e. MATE desktop environment). . MATE Application menu: Move the default X2Go Client .desktop file out of the way (dpkg-divert) and provide the TCE's .desktop file instead. . Make sure that launching x2goclient via a terminal or the run command box in MATE results in the restricted TCE X2Go Client. . Make contrib and non-free software available on minidesktop TCE creation. . Disallow Caja to handle storage media (automounting, opening, etc.). . Enable usbmounts and smartcard rules for minidestop TCE flavour. . Enforce TCE session restart after logout. . Provide Web browser shortcut in the MATE panel. . Enable native-protocol-tcp module in pulseaudio on every X2Go Client launch. Allow access from local host only, require auth cookie.
  • Adapt management package to TCE flavouring. Add new configuration option in x2gothinclient_settings: TC_FLAVOUR (can be: minidesktop or displaymanager).
  • Use proper quotations in several X2Go TCE scripts.
  • Don't choke if /etc/resolv.conf in the TCE chroot is a symbolic link (in x2gothinclient_shell, x2gothinclient_upgrade).
  • README.i18n: Add file that explains the translation workflow for this package. Thanks to Mark Pedersen-Cook for drafting this file.
  • For X2Go TCE in display manager mode, set login backgrounds of all screens (if more than one is used) to a blue'ish background color. (Fixes: #718).
  • TCE in display manager mode: Don't align multiple heads next to one another if a (Wacom) touchscreen is detected in the list of heads. (Fixes: #719).
  • management/sbin/x2gothinclient_update: Create $TC_CHROOT/etc/x2go/x2gothinclient_init.d/ before copying files into it.
  • management/sbin/x2gothinclient_update: Consider known_hosts2 FreeRDP host key files, known_hosts was used for FreeRDP v1.x and are in fact deprecated nowadays.
  • management/sbin/x2gothinclient_create: Stop using deprecated --force-yes.
  • 010_x2gothinclient-fresh-home: Install FreeRDPv2's known_hosts2 file into ~x2gothinclient user's home dir when creating a fresh home.
  • x2gothinclient_sessions: Provide RDP-Direct session profile example that utilizes FreeRDPv2 rather than deprecated FreeRDPv1.x. (On Debian stretch, it is recommended to use FreeRDPv2 from Debian stretch-backports).
  • x2gothinclient-<TC-FLAVOUR>_start: Drop requirement of having symlink /etc/x2go/x2gothinclient_start. Now all code passages that use the _start wrapper, use the x2gothinclient-<TC-FLAVOUR>_start file directly.
• debian/control:
  • Rename bin:package: x2gothinclient -> x2gothinclient-daemon.
  • Make sure x2gothinclient-minidesktop pulls in X11 and X2Go Client.
  • New bin:package: x2gothinclient-common. Commonly shared by x2gothinclient-minidesktop and x2gothinclient-displaymanager
  • Add D (displaymanager flavour, minidesktop flavour): pinentry-x2go.
  • Add D (x2gothinclient-minidesktop): lightdm.
  • Add R (x2gothinclient-minidesktop): flashplugin-nonfree.
  • Add R (x2gothinclient-chroot): ntp.
  • Move to Pre-D (x2gothinclient-minidesktop): x2goclient, lightdm. Make sure those packages are installed already avoiding dpkg-divert failures.
  • Allow co-installation of displaymanager and minidesktop bin:pkgs. They have no conflicting files and we should rather make the startup mode configurable through debconf.
• debian/copyright:
  • Use copyright-format 1.0. . [ Stefan Baur ]
• New upstream release (1.5.0.0):
  • Allow Xinerama / XRandR setup via /proc/cmdline. (Fixes: #726).
• usbmount/x2gousbmount:
  • Make user pseudo-selectible via a variable and fix usage across file.
  • Try to create file-sharing facilities harder.
  • Fix desktop/thinclient mode detection. Fixes: #1136.
  • Set default username to x2gothinclient for MATE minidesktop builds, even for X2GO TCE Live builds.
  • Add support for (V)FAT, NTFS, HFS, HPFS and EXT* (via fuse-ext2) file systems. . [ Mark Pedersen-Cook ]
• debian/po:
  • Add DebConf translation to Danish. . [ Kaan Ozdincer ]
• debian/po:
  • Add DebConf translation to Turkish. . [ Mihai Moldovan ]
• New upstream release (1.5.0.0):
  • Change string "X2go" to "X2Go" where appropriate.
  • displaymanager/init/x2gothinclient-displaymanager.init: fix unchanged "gdm" string in log message. Fixes: #997.
  • management/share/etc/x2gothinclient-minidesktop_start: correctly continue commented out command on the next line. Fixes: #1147.
  • displaymanager/sbin/x2gothinclientd: correctly break long strings over several lines and concatenate them.
  • management/share/etc/x2gothinclient_init.d/ 950_x2gothinclient-minidesktop: call Xsession in mate-minidesktop builds of X2Go TCE Live.
  • misc: update copyright notices, but for Mike Gabriel.
  • README.howto: fix typos.
  • misc: update http:// to https:// URLs where appropriate.
  • misc: drop whitespace from hashbangs.
  • debian/x2gothinclient-common.postrm: newline at EOF change.
  • misc: update Oleksandr's mail address.
  • misc manpages: whitespace only.
  • misc manpages: pre-release version and date updates.
  • cdmanager/powerej/mb.{cpp,h}: whitespace only.
  • cdmanager/powerej/powerej.pro: regenerate with Qt5's qmake and merge.
  • cdmanager/powerej/eject.cpp: use PlastiqueStyle with Qt4 and Fusion with Qt5.
  • cdmanager/powerej/eject.cpp: include QStyleFactory.
  • misc manpages: pre-release date update.
• usbmount/x2gousbmount:
  • Fix typo int -> print. Fixes: #840.
  • Update copyright notice.
  • Fix left-over check_x2gothinclientd definition (should have been check_x2gothinclientmode).
• debian/control:
  • Whitespace only.
  • x2gothinclient-cdmanager: drop libqt4-gui Depends. Already handled by libqt4-dev Build-Depends and shlibs and misc Depends.
  • Maintainer change in package: X2Go Developers <x2go-dev@lists.x2go.org>.
  • Uploaders: add myself. Also, force a rebuild due to the changed versioning.
  • Resurrect x2go{thinclient-management,usbmount,cdmanager,smartcardrules} as dummy packages in the spirit of x2gothinclient for a smooth upgrade path.
  • mate-media-pulse and mate-settings-daemon-pulse are gone in Stretch. Depend on them lightly.
  • Replace iceweasel dependency with firefox-esr. All suites provide the newer name. Avoids an ugly outdated menu entry.
  • Build-depend upon Qt5 instead of Qt4.
  • Bump DH compat level to 9.
• management/share/etc/x2gothinclient-minidesktop_start:
  • Correctly quote pactl command line arguments, avoids the shell interpreting the embedded semicolon as a command separator.
• debian/po:
  • Minor fixup on author name.
  • Regenerate templates and files.
  • Update template with metadata.
  • fr.po: update metadata.
  • Update bugs address in template.
  • Update translation metadata.
  • da.po: fixup.
  • de.po: fixup.
• debian/copyright:
  • Remove obsolete and wrong obviouslynice.de address.
• debian/rules:
  • Whitespace only.
  • Switch to building cdmanager/powerej via Qt5.
  • Modernize respective build flags.
  • Add all clause.
  • Make sure to select Qt5 variant, even though we probably won't use debhelper to build Qt projects.
  • Call qmake instead of qmake-qt5.
• debian/compat:
  • Bump DH compat level to 9. . [ Oleksandr Shneyder ]
• x2gothinclientd: load config file when starting PulseAudio. Fixes: 1092.
• upgrade to debian stretch.
• set oldsatble to jessie in x2gothinclient_settings.
• install linux-image-4.9.0-4-686 instead of dummy-package
• add pxelinux in recommends for x2gothinclient-management
• fix links in x2gothinclient_preptftpboot
• fix link in x2gothinclient_create
• install chroot for amd64
• fix x2gothinclient_update to create files needed by x2gothinclientd
• let user choose architecture by setting TC_ARCH variable. Default amd64.
• improve support for gnupg and dbus.
• modify x2gothinclientd to start scripts needed by gpg agent.
• install meta-package for linux-image to get most recent version. Thanks to Mike for the hint.
• start openbox to make xinerama work. Thanks to Walid Moghrabi for the hint.
• fix Xorg checking in x2gothinclientd.
• remove nomedeset option from x2go-tce.cfg. This option prevent loading of drm and disabling advanced graphic functions.
• add openbox dependency.
• do not start openbox any more. Xinerama issue should be fixed in x2goagent. . [ Martti Pitkänen ]
• debian/po:
  • Add DebConf translation to Finnish. . [ Thierry Kauffmann ]
• New upstream release (1.5.0.0):
  • debian/po: add French translation file.

Regards,

Mihai Moldovan