In the Fedora x2goserver package, I've packaged the /etc/x2go/Xsession* files as part of the main package. This is breaking things - see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1038834

This seems to be the crux of the matter, from x2goruncommand:

     x2gofeature X2GO_XSESSION &>/dev/null && [ "x$X2GO_SESS_TYPE" = 

"xD" ] && { STARTUP="$cmd$args" $X2GO_LIB_PATH/x2gosyslog "$0" "notice" "launching session with Xsession-x2go mechanism, using STARTUP=\"$STARTUP\"" STARTUP="/usr/bin/env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH} ${STARTUP}" /etc/x2go/Xsession } || { $X2GO_LIB_PATH/x2gosyslog "$0" "debug" "executing command \"$cmd$args\"..." $EXEC_WRAPPER $cmd$args }

So, with the X2GO_XSESSION feature installed (which it is), it runs /etc/x2go/Xsession. This script exits successfully and so $cmd$args is never executed.

It looks like something in Xsession is supposed to run $STARTUP, but nothing is configured to do so. Are users expected to create their own script to do this?

Part of the confusion for me is that there is no /etc/X11/Xsession.d in Fedora, so I'm not sure what is meant to be there.

Xsession-x2go README

With X2Go it is possible to use Xsession config files of your local X11 system.

By default most files and folders related to Xsession config are symlinks to the corresponding file/folder in /etc/X11.

If you want to customize your X2Go server's Xsession setup copy the corresponding files from /etc/X11 to /etc/x2go and adapt the setup to your needs.

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