On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 02:36:00PM -0500, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
the session management will fail if you connect to a X2Go server and your default login shell deviates from a BASH. reason: any client tries to export the host environment variable before it starts x2glistsession. export only works for BASH and not e.g. for tcsh.
if someone is responding to that bug-report i can offer a workaround .. (i just want to find out if someone is interested in ;) <snip> We've noticed the same for Ubuntu with its default dash shell. I'm not sure if the export was the only reason or if there were some other
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 12:04 +0000, armin wrote: parsing bash functions that were not working in dash. Perhaps that's another reason why X2Go is focusing its development resources on Lenny. Of course, not all Lenny's will be running bash ;) - John
nice .. I got response ;)
At least for a (t)csh I can give you a workaround: copy following snipset to your ".tcshrc" or ".cshrc" and your session management will work again. I'm quite sure similar is possible with other shells.
if ( $?command ) then
set is_x2go=echo $command | grep "x2golistsessions"
if ( "x$is_x2go" != "x" ) then
exec x2golistsessions
endif
endif
background: when the x2go client starts to communicate with the server (one of) the first command is "export HOSTNAME&&x2golistsessions" which is necessary for the session-management.
By sure, this is not a solution in general but for simple setups it will be helpful .. As a long-term objectiv one should put this into the X2Go todo-list where the proper handling of different shells is done within the client - armin