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X2Go-Future
by Arnold Krille 21 May '12

21 May '12

Hi all, I am having some doubts about the future of X2Go and seeking for answers. I saw mails mentioning nx3.6 which seems a bit strange to me given that the next version of nomachine's nx is 4.0. And that is what makes me wonder about the future of x2go: The main parts of x2go (nx-agent and assorted low-level libraries) seem to go closed-source, at least as far as I can tell from their licensing documents. So what happens to X2Go? I love the work you guys did and do. Resuming sessions while changing desktop- geometry is real fun. Having responsive desktops over WAN where vnc just doesn't work, is real fun. Using locally attached usb-stick on the remote server is real fun. Which made me "force" my colleages switch from our old VNC-based setup to X2Go. Sadly the expirience suffered when we updated the nx- libs from 3.4 to 3.5: On WAN-connections its still usable but on LAN X2Go looses in speed and latency and responsiveness against VNC. Which my co- workers really hate. My hope was that next nx-libs might fix this. And they probably will, but not for us when there is a price-tag associated with it. So how to go on in our case? What is your future planning for X2Go? Do you have plans (and knowledge and manpower) to further develop the nx-libs on the open-source base? Do you have a promise from nomachine that the libs will go open-source again? Do you have plans to use a different x-protocol like vnc from tigervnc or turbovnc? (Combining the speed of tigervnc and the features of sessions and apps and storage-forwarding of x2go seems like a good idea to me currently.) Thanks for your answers! Have a nice weekend, Arnold

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Windows X2Go client and Windows 8
by Stefan Baur 21 May '12

21 May '12

Hi Devs, just FYI: I tried to run 3.99.2.1-rc3 on Windows 8 (32-Bit) and it gets to the point where the connection is established and it tries to start the X server on the client, then it completely crashes Windows 8 (forced reboot). Attempting to run vcxsrv.exe on its own doesn't seem to do anything: There's no black X desktop showing up, but Win8 doesn't crash either. With Windows 8 schedluled for release in October 2012, I guess *someone* should take a look at this soon. -Stefan

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Clipboard feature?
by Stefan Baur 21 May '12

21 May '12

Hi Devs, not long ago, someone (Alex?) posted a message that X2Go doesn't strive to be NoMachine NX and prefers to work as a glue between several freely available and already existing components (like, using ssh tunneling and FUSE for file sharing between server and client). One feature that NoMachine NX (and FreeNX) has is to limit the use of the clipboard: You can set it to work both ways, server -> client, client -> server, or not at all. How could that be mimicked if such a feature is not part of X2Go? -Stefan

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[nx-libs] Reason for using quilt
by Mihai Moldovan 20 May '12

20 May '12

Hi, I'm wondering why you guys are using quilt for managing patches to the nx-libs repository. I see that the general purpose is to have the original nomachine source base intact/unchanged to track changes easily. However, quilt is a pain to use (i.e., omitting a patch in the series or changing it), especially taking into consideration that git _already is_ a SCM. Wouldn't it be easier to actually use multiple branches for that purpose? [nomachine]--{3.5.0}------------{3.6.0 (future)}----... \-->[x2go]-------\-->------------... where [name] is a branch named "name", {name} is a tag named "name" and the arrows denote merges. Note that we don't want to merge x2go project changes back into the original nomachine source, thus not merging the x2go branch into the nomachine branch. However, we _want_ to merge new versions of nomachine's source into the x2go branch at some point. Also, this setup is very flexible. If, for instance, you decide to still support the x2go nx 3.5.0 branch, even though nomachine nx 3.6.0 has been released, simply branch off the x2go branch, like this: [nomachine]--{3.5.0}------------{3.6.0 (future)}----... \-->[x2go]-------\-->------------... \-->[x2go 3.5.0]--------... Afterwards, the nomachine branch (tag 3.6.0) can then be merged into the x2go branch and the x2go 3.5.0 life on happily ever after. It is way easier to rebase a branch such as to not include a specific commit (cherry-pick), than omit a patch in the quilt patch series. Not sure if it's only me, but this quilt stuff is really messing with my work flow. Please drop your thoughts in here. Best regards, Mihai

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x2goclient 3.99.2.0 introduces excessive client logging
by masc 20 May '12

20 May '12

Hello, since updating to 3.99.2.0 on OSX the log database is flooded with x2go.client debug log messages while having a session connected. As a side effect specific operations like opening a new terminal window are slowed down and .asl log files have to be cleared out manually from /private/var/log/asl on a very regular basis. 3.99.1.0-rc2 did not show this behaviour and I cannot find any client side setting to lower the log level. Is it possible to change the client log level? Thank you, Marco

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USB forwarding? (esp. @Alex & @Mike)
by Stefan Baur 19 May '12

19 May '12

Hi Devs (esp. Alex and Mike), this topic has popped up before, but it seems no one is really tackling this (or did I just miss the relevant posts?): Forwarding of USB devices from the guest to the host. Our commercial competitors offer solutions to forward, say, a USB card reader to the host, so digital signatures can be performed on a (windows) terminal server. How hard would it be to add this feature to X2Go (especially when working with a Windows client)? Is it a difficult task, or simply a matter of "nobody got around to coding this yet"? -Stefan

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Build Server (Debian packages) available again
by Mike Gabriel 19 May '12

19 May '12

Hi Alex, the Debian packaging environment on japsand.x2go.org is available again. Greets, Mike -- DAS-NETZWERKTEAM mike gabriel, dorfstr. 27, 24245 barmissen fon: +49 (4302) 281418, fax: +49 (4302) 281419 GnuPG Key ID 0xB588399B mail: mike.gabriel(a)das-netzwerkteam.de, http://das-netzwerkteam.de freeBusy: https://mail.das-netzwerkteam.de/freebusy/m.gabriel%40das-netzwerkteam.de.x…

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Full screen on Windows XP
by Paul van der Vlis 19 May '12

19 May '12

Hello, Is it possible to work full-screen on Windows XP with X2goclient? I have a customer what says that this does not work. With regards, Paul. -- Paul van der Vlis Linux systeembeheer, Groningen http://www.vandervlis.nl

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X2Go client (VcXsrv) crashes when running Google Chrome
by Stefan Baur 16 May '12

16 May '12

Hi, I'm trying to configure Google Chrome (google-chrome-stable 19.0.1084.46-r135956) on Debian Squeeze, from the Windows X2GoClient (RC3) - whenever I try to access the settings to configure my proxy, VcXsrv dies: Problemsignatur: Problemereignisname: APPCRASH Anwendungsname: vcxsrv.exe Anwendungsversion: 0.0.0.0 Anwendungszeitstempel: 4f852997 Fehlermodulname: vcxsrv.exe Fehlermodulversion: 0.0.0.0 Fehlermodulzeitstempel: 4f852997 Ausnahmecode: c0000005 Ausnahmeoffset: 00160860 Betriebsystemversion: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3 Gebietsschema-ID: 1031 Zusatzinformation 1: 0a9e Zusatzinformation 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789 Zusatzinformation 3: 0a9e Zusatzinformation 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789 Please let me know if you need further information to debug the issue, I'll be happy to provide it. -Stefan

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Support for PuTTY private key files / built-in ssh-agent?
by Stefan Baur 16 May '12

16 May '12

Hi Devs, would it be possible to integrate support (1) for PuTTY-style ssh private key files (*.ppk) into the X2Go client, or (2) to run a ssh-agent (maybe from cygwin, or copied from PuTTY's "pageant.exe") *within* the X2Go client, so other applications can authenticate with the same key? PuTTY's license does allow copying their code into GPLed code, as it seems. The idea behind (2) this is that the X2Go client on Windows would be able to provide authentication information to WinSCP and similar tools. (1) would simply make life easier for users that already have a private key stored in PuTTY's format. At present they either have to run PuTTYgen to convert it into the format X2Go client understands, or run pageant.exe, PuTTY's ssh agent. -Stefan

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