xming v 6.9 source is on SourceForge here<http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/files/Xming-source/6.9.0.31/Xming_69031_source.tar.bz2/download>
Message: 3 Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 09:37:10 -0400 From: Gerry Reno <greno@verizon.net> To: x2go-dev@lists.berlios.de Subject: Re: [X2go-dev] The Vanishing Mouse Message-ID: <4CADCD06.8040206@verizon.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Hello all,
it was reported on the list a while ago that somebody was having an issue where the mouse pointer within the X2GO session would disappear. Well, I finally managed to get the same thing to happen to me this morning while running X2GO under Windows XP Pro. Even suspending the session and re-connecting does not resolve the problem. The issue appears to be the version of Xming that is being distributed with X2GO.
Why do I think this ? I suspended my session again and then killed of Xming via task manager. This caused the X2GO plugin to fail for which I created a new FF tab and reconnected. I connected straight back to the same session and X instance as before and my mouse pointer was back in the land of the living.
The question is though how can we resolve this problem ? The 6.9 version of Xming that is shipped with X2GO is ~3 years out of date now, and to get
On 10/07/2010 07:25 AM, --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote: the new 7.5 branch one has to subscribe. Hmmm, this would be fine for a couple of users but when we may be handling 100,000 of them it would get a bit pricey :(
Any thoughts on what can be done ?
Xming has a site license for v7.5 available for ? 250 (125 academic). Unlimited users. So that would not be all that expensive. The other option is to find the source code for v6.9 and then we debug the vanishing mouse problem and create a patch.
Regards, Gerry
Hello Brian, hello List,
since version 3.0-14 which was released on october 14th 2009, we don't use xming "as product" any more. The reason was, that we were not happy with it (as it was not "free enough"). So we found the following HowTo on freedesktop.org which describes how you can build Xorg for windows on your own:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Xming/Building
The source can also be found inside the upcomming berlios git and in our "preparation git":
The only change we made is to get it running with our plugin. We can't reproduce the described bug on our systems - so we can't fix it at the moment, but we are willing to do so.
best regards,
Alex & Heinz
Am 08.10.2010 18:20, schrieb brian mullan:
xming v 6.9 source is on SourceForge here <http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/files/Xming-source/6.9.0.31/Xming_69031_source.tar.bz2/download>
------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 09:37:10 -0400 From: Gerry Reno <greno@verizon.net <mailto:greno@verizon.net>> To: x2go-dev@lists.berlios.de <mailto:x2go-dev@lists.berlios.de> Subject: Re: [X2go-dev] The Vanishing Mouse Message-ID: <4CADCD06.8040206@verizon.net <mailto:4CADCD06.8040206@verizon.net>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On 10/07/2010 07:25 AM, --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote: > Hello all, > > it was reported on the list a while ago that somebody was having an issue where the mouse pointer within the X2GO session would disappear. Well, I finally managed to get the same thing to happen to me this morning while running X2GO under Windows XP Pro. Even suspending the session and re-connecting does not resolve the problem. The issue appears to be the version of Xming that is being distributed with X2GO. > > Why do I think this ? I suspended my session again and then killed of Xming via task manager. This caused the X2GO plugin to fail for which I created a new FF tab and reconnected. I connected straight back to the same session and X instance as before and my mouse pointer was back in the land of the living. > > The question is though how can we resolve this problem ? The 6.9 version of Xming that is shipped with X2GO is ~3 years out of date now, and to get the new 7.5 branch one has to subscribe. Hmmm, this would be fine for a couple of users but when we may be handling 100,000 of them it would get a bit pricey :( > > Any thoughts on what can be done ? > Xming has a site license for v7.5 available for ? 250 (125 academic). Unlimited users. So that would not be all that expensive. The other option is to find the source code for v6.9 and then we debug the vanishing mouse problem and create a patch. Regards, Gerry
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On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 23:00 +0200, Heinz-M. Graesing wrote:
Hello Brian, hello List,
since version 3.0-14 which was released on october 14th 2009, we don't use xming "as product" any more. The reason was, that we were not happy with it (as it was not "free enough"). So we found the following HowTo on freedesktop.org which describes how you can build Xorg for windows on your own:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Xming/Building
The source can also be found inside the upcomming berlios git and in our "preparation git":
The only change we made is to get it running with our plugin. We can't reproduce the described bug on our systems - so we can't fix it at the moment, but we are willing to do so.
best regards,
Alex & Heinz <snip> That's interesting. I was not aware that's how you bundled the Windows XServer. As someone who used both 3.01-2 and 3.01-4, the performance improvement in 3.01-4 was astounding. At least in our environment, 3.01-2 was almost unusable - very, very slow. 3.01-4 was just as fast as using a Linux client. I definitely do not want to step backwards in terms of performance.
The bug is maddeningly random. It seems to be provoked by some applications more than others. We have users who lose the mouse between two and four times every day. Those users make heavy use of rdesktop. We were not initially able to reproduce the error. We finally did by just letting it sit and having the screen saver kick (we start automatically at five minutes and lock after one). That does not always provoke the error but it does occasionally.
Right now, we are testing replacing the provided xming with the website paid version to see if the problem goes away. Thanks - John
I have also experienced this bug on Windows 7 Ultimate. I'm not sure how, why, when or what I did, so it doesn't make a good bug report, but I can confirm that it happens.
Jo-Erlend Schinstad
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