A page in your DokuWiki was added or changed. Here are the details: Date : 2015/04/02 18:44 Browser : Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0 IP-Address : 217.92.117.31 Hostname : home.ionic.de Old Revision: http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:de-compat?rev=1427286630 New Revision: http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:de-compat Edit Summary: Add TOC. User : ionic @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ - ==== Desktop Environment Compatibility ==== + ===== Desktop Environment Compatibility ===== <note>This page is about compatibility with X2Go Server, not with X2Go Client (or PyHoca-GUI or PyHoca-CLI.) X2Go Client should be able to run under any and every X11-based desktop environment. Wayland-based desktop environments need testing.</note> - === Explanation === + ==== Explanation ==== X2Go's "X Server" is called "nxagent". It is part of the nx-libs package. As of version 3.5.0.x, nxagent is forked from the X.org 6.9 codebase (from 2005.) Therefore, there are 4 reasons why certain modern "3d-ish" desktops are incompatible with nxagent, and therefore X2Go. @@ -17,52 +17,52 @@ Ultimately, addressing issues #1 and #2 requires a lot of work. Solutions are discussed [[wiki:development:new-feature-brainstorming#nx-libs|here.]] It is recommended to switch to using a compatible desktop environment if your desktop environment is listed below as incompatible. - === Always Compatible and no Workarounds Required === + ==== Always Compatible and no Workarounds Required ==== - LXDE (not LXQt) - XFCE - MATE <note tip>MATE (the fork of GNOME2) is not included with certain distros, such as Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu 14.04. You can however install it from http://mate-desktop.org/ on those 2 versions of Ubuntu and on other distros.</note> <note important>Ubuntu 14.04 includes some MATE packages, but not enough of them to provide the MATE desktop environment. See the above note about installing MATE on Ubuntu 14.04.</note> - === Always Compatible, but Trivial Workarounds Required === + ==== Always Compatible, but Trivial Workarounds Required ==== * IceWM In X2Go Client, you must specify the Session Type as: Custom Desktop: icewm-session * OpenBox In X2Go Client, You must specify the Session Type as: Custom Desktop: openbox-session - === Compatibility and Workarounds depend on what version === - == GNOME == + ==== Compatibility and Workarounds depend on what version ==== + === GNOME === * GNOME 2: Compatible and no workaround required * GNOME 3.0 through 3.6: "GNOME Fallback Mode" must be installed. This is included with most, if not all distros. * GNOME 3.8: "GNOME Flasback Mode" 3.8.x must be installed. It is seldom included with distros. There are bugs with it. Using GNOME 3.8 with X2Go is not recommended. * GNOME 3.10: "GNOME Flasback Mode" 3.8.x may be compatible, but there are even more bugs with it. It is seldom included with distros. Using GNOME 3.10 with X2Go is not recommended. * GNOME 3.12 and later: TBD, but probably not compatible. Using GNOME 3.12 and later with X2Go is not recommended. <note important>GNOME Classic Mode is not the same as GNOME fallback mode or GNOME Flashback mode. GNOME Classic Mode is not compatible with X2Go.</note> - == KDE == + === KDE === * KDE 3: Compatible and no workaround required * KDE 4: Compatible and no workaround required * KDE 5: Incompatible due to plasmashell requiring GLX 1.3 - == UNITY == + === UNITY === - Ubuntu 12.04: Compatible, as long as package "unity-2d" is installed. By default with "Ubuntu Desktop", it is. - Ubuntu 12.10 and later (including 14.04): Not compatible - == Cinnamon == + === Cinnamon === - Cinnamon 1.4 (Linux Mint 13 "Maya"): Compatible, you must specify the Session Type as: Custom Desktop: gnome-session-cinnamon - Cinnamon 2.2 (Linux Mint 17 "Qiana"): Not compatible. Cinnamon reverts to "fallback mode", which is not as good as regular "cinnamon" nor "cinnamon2d". If you wish try try it in anyway, specify the Session Type as: Custom Desktop: cinnamon-session-cinnamon2d Compatibility issues with Cinnamon are being tracked in bug [[http://bugs.x2go.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=150|150]] - === Incompatible === + ==== Incompatible ==== - LXQt due to [[http://bugs.x2go.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=637|Qt5 incompatibility]] === Compatibility and Workarounds TBD === - == Enlightenment == + === Enlightenment === - E17 (Bodhi Linux 24.0, "enlightenment" package version: 20130818-1) In X2Go Client, You must specify the Session Type as: Custom Desktop: /usr/bin/enlightenment_start However, bug [[http://bugs.x2go.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=555|555]] (Windows cannot be moved by dragging) was encountered, and not much testing has been done. -- This mail was generated by DokuWiki at http://wiki.x2go.org/