Hello all,
Long time user of NX related programs for some time now. Mostly freenx, which has been driving me crazy lately. I am a staunch Debian user and feel that it's unlikely that freenx will ever enter main there. Hence my want to switch to X2Go. I've been following and trying to get this working for me too long now. The largest hurdle that is stopping me now is the inability to switch windows properly when using the windows X2Go client.
I keep a long running session open on a remote box and prefer to keep most of my work there. The problem is that I also have a need to switch back to my local desktop often. Typically I do this with the "magic" pixel or Alt + Tab. I'm also perhaps quirky in that I want my remote session to be full screen not windowed.
I do not experience this problem from a Linux laptop with X2Go or
PyHoca-Gui. I can switch windows, suspend, resume, et. al. just dandy!
My problem is with the M$ side of course. Starting the session is fine,
even resuming one started elsewhere. When I switch back to another
program though I can't get back to my session properly. Either I will
see part of my desktop (KDE if it matters) and the last program I was
using in windows will be covering the rest. Sometimes if I minimize
that program I will get my remote session back, not often though.
Typically what happens is I will get a small rectangle toward the upper left of my windows desktop. It may or may not have the minimize, restore, close widget displayed with it. When this happens the only way back to my remote session is to close the client and reconnect. This does work, far too painful to deal with.
Seems that I have just been babbling here. If I can describe it some other way, post logs, config, whatever I am willing to do that. A quick kick in the right direction would be appreciated. Server logs show nothing at any debug level that I see.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Mike