x2go-dev March 2011

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Connection to localhost
by Manovel 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

Hi everybody, I wanted to know what's the status on the problem by connecting to localhost, any news? Thank you, manovel

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vacation
by Heinz-M. Graesing 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

hello list members, I just want to inform you that Alex is on vacation this week and I'll be unavailable for the coming next two weeks. After our vacation we'll try to publish a roadmap including the features of the new version. As you all know there have been huge changes made to the planned release so please don't expect the final version in the next 4 weeks. As far as we can tell now, we'll change the licence of our core components (x2goclient, x2goserver) to the AGPL licence. The licence of all used code of other projects will stay untouched of cause. Our wiki is used by more and more people and it will become our main documentation platform. The needed static websites will moved to the blog, so that there will be only two web platforms left (redirections will save the existing links). Regards, Heinz

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libssh and keep alive
by --[ UxBoD ]-- 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Alex/Heinz, with the latest x2go clients using libssh2 have keep alive packets been enabled as according to http://trac.libssh2.org/wiki/KeepAlive they are off by default. I have noticed my sound and spool directory keeps disappearing and wondering whether this is what the cause is. -- Thanks, Phil

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Re: [X2go-dev] x2go on Android ?
by brian mullan 11 Mar '11

11 Mar '11

I think Tablets are going to be a huge opportunity for x2go. Unless the tablet allows some linux to be installed on it to replace Android -or- comes with linux the ability to run an xserver & x2go will be a good Plan B

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x2go on Android ?
by --[ UxBoD ]-- 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

Could this be what we have been waiting for ? http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/02/28/necessitas/ It very much looks like we could soon develop a version of x2go for running on Android based devices which would be awesome! :) -- Thanks, Phil

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Looking for information on the future of x2go (and some other x2go-related stuff)
by Stefan Baur 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

Hi list, I have been "playing" with x2go for a while and it looks very promising - a worthy successor to Nomachine NX - though I am unsure about a few things - maybe someone here on this list could provide some information? My questions are: 1) With the recent announcement of Nomachine going closed source, what does the future of x2go look like? 1a) As far as I understand, x2go uses parts of the GPL'ed Nomachine code, which will remain available in its current state due to the GPL, but will not be maintained by Nomachine any more. Are the x2go developers willing - and able - to maintain this part of the code, in case it requires maintenance and / or security patches? 1b) Or are you going to do a re-write of the Nomachine code currently in use? 1c) FreeNX seems to be a dying project (correct me if I'm wrong), since their lead developer Fabian Franz has left the project (or at least became inactive) quite a while ago - There are no Debian packages available any more, the latest Ubuntu packages are, umm, "flaky", and there hasn't been a new upstream release from the FreeNX team in a few years, unless I'm totally mistaken. From what I found out about x2go, the guy in the lead is Heinz-M. Graesing, who is working full-time as a system administrator and maintaining x2go purely in his spare time (again, correct me if I'm wrong). I would hate to see x2go going the FreeNX route once something happens to Heinz that leaves him unable to maintain the project. So I was wondering if there is a sufficient amount of other people backing the project that the loss of the lead developer (be it due to increased workload at his day job, health issues, or simply loss of interest) can be dealt with, should the situation arise? If that isn't the case right now, I would like to suggest making plans for it asap - the best time to install a fire escape ladder is before the house has a chance to start burning. ;-) 2) I read that Univention is using x2go for their desktop virtualization (see <http://wiki.univention.de/index.php?title=UCS_Desktop_Virtualization_Servic…>). Are they active supporters of x2go (i.e. donating money or manpower to the project)? (I ask because I'm hoping that a company planning a large-scale commerial deployment like Univention seems to be doing would have an interest in the x2go project staying alive and expanding.) 3) I heard of legal issues regarding the project name and some other stuff. That was back in December. Since the project is still named x2go, and Univention is openly using this name, I was wondering if these issues have been resolved? 4) Browsing the list archive, I saw that you are planning to provide packages for sid and wheezy via the official Debian repositories - I understand that it is too late to add packages for squeeze to the official Debian repositories, now that squeeze has been released, but will you provide packages for squeeze via your own repository? Currently it only shows packages for lenny (regarding Debian; I'm aware that you are providing packages for other Debian-based Distros as well). 5) I understand that you need some sort of full-screen application (similar to xdm/kdm/gdm) when running in thin client mode, and that this is why the current x2go client looks the way it looks, but I would really like to see a client that doesn't take up as much screen space, especially on Windows. Would it be possible to add an option for a "smaller" login window, similar to the one used by the current NX client: Provide text entry fields for username and password, and a drop-down list for the session name; when a session name is given on the command line, only show username and password fields; when the session file was stored with a password, directly start the login process? (The reason why I'm asking for this is that I see a use case where x2go is used in rootless mode to allow access to single applications, and the big fullscreen thingie is kind of annoying to the users that are currently used to the NX client.) Regarding question 5, I cannot provide patches myself, as I am not a coder, but I would be willing to make a financial contribution either to the x2go project, if it is possible for them to accept such contributions, or to the coder providing the necessary patches (as long as the price quote seems reasonable and affordable to me) - if that helps motivate you to code. ;-) 6) Is there any way to get sound working (especially in rootless mode, say, for Flash-based websites displayed in a remote Firefox/Iceweasel window) with Debian lenny or squeeze on the server side, and Windows on the client side? I've seen a few messages concerning sound issues in the list archives, but I'm not sure if I made a mistake during my test installation or if there is a general problem and I can stop banging my head against the wall until the developers declare that the issue is fixed. Kind Regards, Stefan Baur PS: I really like the idea of how you deal with printing, as opposed to the Nomachine approach - I had planned to implement something similar before, when I hadn't heard of x2go and was stuck with Nomachine, but failed due to my lack of coding skills and time.

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x2go-home
by Alexander Crössmann 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

Hallo, ich bin ein absoluter Neuling hier und hab mir auf Ubuntu 9.10 x2go-home installiert. Leider kann ich mich über den client nicht einloggen. Die Fehlermeldung lautet "The remote proxy closed the connection while negotiating the session. This may be due to the wrong authentication credentials passed to the server.". Ab und zu sehe ich noch das hier " NXPROXY - Version 3.4.0 Copyright (C) 2001, 2007 NoMachine. See http://www.nomachine.com/ for more information. Info: Proxy running in client mode with pid '25163'. Session: Starting session at 'Fri Aug 13 10:29:55 2010'. Info: Connecting to remote host 'localhost:30002'. Info: Connection to remote proxy 'localhost:30002' established. Error: The remote NX proxy closed the connection. Error: Failure negotiating the session in stage '7'. Error: Wrong version or invalid session authentication cookie. Session: Terminating session at 'Fri Aug 13 10:29:56 2010'. Session: Session terminated at 'Fri Aug 13 10:29:56 2010'. NXPROXY - Version 3.4.0 Copyright (C) 2001, 2007 NoMachine. See http://www.nomachine.com/ for more information. Info: Proxy running in client mode with pid '25985'. Session: Starting session at 'Fri Aug 13 10:30:10 2010'. Info: Connecting to remote host 'localhost:30001'. Info: Connection to remote proxy 'localhost:30001' established. " Also host habe ich sowohl 127.0.0.1 als auch localhost probiert. Anmeldename ist mein lokaler Name, der auch in der entsprechenden x2go Gruppe ist. ssh Port ist bei mir nicht 22, das habe ich aber entsprechend eingestellt. Kann mir jemand sagen woran das jetzt noch liegen könnte? Viele Grüße Alex

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PyHoca and the web
by contact＠gmli.fr 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

Hi, As you may know, nomachine released the 4th version of NX with web (HTML) support. I was wondering if PyHoca could help to do it… The approach of nomachine is a bit bloated, so I think the best to do could be this : Write a PyHoca-Gui which generates a full HTML rendering of the session. Then the user just has to connect to it. The client and the server could be on the same machine, and the user will connect to the web frontend with his browser like with vlc or transmission. Is that possible ? gml PS. of course no sound (etc), for the moment (maybe with a Java or Flash plugin).

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Browser x2goplugin
by Shanon Loughton 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

Hi all This question may have already been asked: 1) Is there a plugin in the works for internet explorer? It mentions it could be possible on http://wiki.x2go.org/x2goplugin Please point me to the thread if already discussed. My second question is 2) Where can I report bugs / tests? The plugin does not register on firefox 4 beta 11 on vista. thanks. Congratulations on such a great piece of software. Shanon

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