On 20 April 2011 21:04, Meik Hellmund <Meik.Hellmund@math.uni-leipzig.de> wrote: [snip]
DISPLAY=0:0 and started an X app on the client - and voila, it appears in the client's x2go session. But it is not managed by the window manager since the window manager runs on the server. So it has no border and can'tmoved around etc. Is there some better way to do this? Is it possible to somehow stack a local and a server window manager?
What I've sometimes done, is to use the WM on the client and then run rootless applications from x2go. For instance, if you use gnome-panel on the server and the client, you can leave the bottom panel on the client side and only leave the top panel on the server side. Then you run gnome-panel as a rootless application from the server. This gives you a top panel and a bottom panel. On the top panel, you have application menus and when you start one, it's run as a rootless application. The bottom panel then has a switcher for both local and remote applications, so that's fairly seemless. On the bottom panel, I then add an applications menu with only the applications I wish to run locally.
Perhaps it's worth a try? Hope it helps.
Jo-Erlend Schinstad