Bug#1208: Messed up session when resuming from Published Apps mode to Fullscreen desktop mode in thinclient mode
Package: x2gothinclient Version: 4.1.1.0-0~1634~ubuntu16.04.1
Let's say you suspended a session in "Published Apps" mode from a local desktop (might be Linux or Windows, it doesn't matter) then try to resume it from a TCE running the client in thinclient mode. This will work, you can resume the session but the display is completely broken : no desktop, no decorations, corrupted display and no widget to logoff so you're stuck there unless someone kills your session from the server.
It would be better to simply block the ability to resume a Published Apps session in a mode where it just can't be done such as the thinclient mode.
Regards, Walid Moghrabi
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Am 23.09.2017 um 22:25 schrieb Walid MOGHRABI:
Let's say you suspended a session in "Published Apps" mode from a local desktop (might be Linux or Windows, it doesn't matter) then try to resume it from a TCE running the client in thinclient mode. This will work, you can resume the session but the display is completely broken : no desktop, no decorations, corrupted display and no widget to logoff so you're stuck there unless someone kills your session from the server.
It would be better to simply block the ability to resume a Published Apps session in a mode where it just can't be done such as the thinclient mode.
The question is: How do we handle that? --no-public-applications as a commandline option? We could hardcode that into an X2Go-TCE-startup script then.
-Stefan
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On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 2:51 PM, Stefan Baur <X2Go-ML-1@baur-itcs.de> wrote:
Am 23.09.2017 um 22:25 schrieb Walid MOGHRABI:
Let's say you suspended a session in "Published Apps" mode from a local desktop (might be Linux or Windows, it doesn't matter) then try to resume it from a TCE running the client in thinclient mode. This will work, you can resume the session but the display is completely broken : no desktop, no decorations, corrupted display and no widget to logoff so you're stuck there unless someone kills your session from the server.
It would be better to simply block the ability to resume a Published Apps session in a mode where it just can't be done such as the thinclient mode.
The question is: How do we handle that? --no-public-applications as a commandline option? We could hardcode that into an X2Go-TCE-startup script then.
No, that should work automatically. As long as there's a window manager on the client side everything will work fine. And that's easily checkable by x2goclient.
Uli
Am 25.09.2017 um 15:24 schrieb Ulrich Sibiller:
Let's say you suspended a session in "Published Apps" mode from a local desktop (might be Linux or Windows, it doesn't matter) then try to resume it from a TCE running the client in thinclient mode. This will work, you can resume the session but the display is completely broken : no desktop, no decorations, corrupted display and no widget to logoff so you're stuck there unless someone kills your session from the server.
It would be better to simply block the ability to resume a Published Apps session in a mode where it just can't be done such as the thinclient mode. The question is: How do we handle that? --no-public-applications as a commandline option? We could hardcode that into an X2Go-TCE-startup script then. No, that should work automatically. As long as there's a window manager on the client side everything will work fine. And that's easily checkable by x2goclient.
Wait a minute - we are running a Display Manager in X2Go-TCE ... in the live edition at least. So Window decorations should be there, just no task bar.
Walid - did you change anything in your TCE setup compared to X2Go-TCE-Live, branch "feature/openbox"?
What SHOULD happen is that X2GoClient starts up in fullscreen, but any popup it shows (like asking for a keyfile's password, or displaying that there's no route to host) should have window decorations. And I'd assume that the same window manager would put window decorations around PubApp windows once the session resumes.
(Of course, it will still be almost unusable, as there's no task bar, no logoff button, and no menu, but I'm surprised to hear that there are no window decorations.)
-Stefan
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I don't remember exactly about windows decorations, I'll try again but in any way, the result is just plain unusable so in this specific situation (aka. resuming a Published Apps session from a TCE), it would be better to block the resume and propose to close the session before opening a new one.
Regards, Walid Moghrabi
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De: "Stefan Baur" <X2Go-ML-1@baur-itcs.de> À: uli42@gmx.de, 1208@bugs.x2go.org, "Walid MOGHRABI" <w.moghrabi@servicemagic.eu> Envoyé: Lundi 25 Septembre 2017 19:24:21 Objet: Re: [X2Go-Dev] Bug#1208: Bug#1208: Messed up session when resuming from Published Apps mode to Fullscreen desktop mode in thinclient mode
Am 25.09.2017 um 15:24 schrieb Ulrich Sibiller:
Let's say you suspended a session in "Published Apps" mode from a local desktop (might be Linux or Windows, it doesn't matter) then try to resume it from a TCE running the client in thinclient mode. This will work, you can resume the session but the display is completely broken : no desktop, no decorations, corrupted display and no widget to logoff so you're stuck there unless someone kills your session from the server.
It would be better to simply block the ability to resume a Published Apps session in a mode where it just can't be done such as the thinclient mode. The question is: How do we handle that? --no-public-applications as a commandline option? We could hardcode that into an X2Go-TCE-startup script then. No, that should work automatically. As long as there's a window manager on the client side everything will work fine. And that's easily checkable by x2goclient.
Wait a minute - we are running a Display Manager in X2Go-TCE ... in the live edition at least. So Window decorations should be there, just no task bar.
Walid - did you change anything in your TCE setup compared to X2Go-TCE-Live, branch "feature/openbox"?
What SHOULD happen is that X2GoClient starts up in fullscreen, but any popup it shows (like asking for a keyfile's password, or displaying that there's no route to host) should have window decorations. And I'd assume that the same window manager would put window decorations around PubApp windows once the session resumes.
(Of course, it will still be almost unusable, as there's no task bar, no logoff button, and no menu, but I'm surprised to hear that there are no window decorations.)
-Stefan
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Am 26.09.2017 um 12:58 schrieb Walid MOGHRABI:
I don't remember exactly about windows decorations, I'll try again but in any way, the result is just plain unusable so in this specific situation (aka. resuming a Published Apps session from a TCE), it would be better to block the resume and propose to close the session before opening a new one.
I agree on that, I'd just like to know if we have a bug with the window decorations as well. ;-)
-Stefan
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