This is because you're using the "Local desktop" mode which is, in fact, only a VNC connection on top of your local opened session on your workstation. This is not the best way to use X2Go bcause :
- it works badly with multiple monitors
- it is slow and not very usable
- it needs that your local session is active and logged in
X2Go is a remote desktop on top of X server remoting. This is NOT a tool that is used for remote access the way you can do with TeamViewer or VNC (even though there is such mode with the "Local Desktop" session). The "normal" way of using X2Go is with remote session through X server. But for that, you need a supported Desktop Environnement (DE) and currently some "modern desktops" are not or badly such as Gnome3, Unity or KDE Plasma.
MATE, XFCE, LXDE and some others works well but this will NOT let you resume an already opened local session, it will open a new session as if you were switching between local users on a workstation. You won't be able to resume your opened apps for example.
In fact, X2Go is basically suited for thin clients, yon don't even need to have a graphical local desktop or a GPU on the server side since the desktop is virtual.
Regards, Walid Moghrabi
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De: "Thomas Porschberg" <thomas@randspringer.de> À: x2go-user@lists.x2go.org Envoyé: Mercredi 1 Novembre 2017 11:40:00 Objet: [X2Go-User] newbie question multiple monitors
Hi,
I installed the server part on my Ubuntu 16.04 PC with two monitors (THis is my workstation I work with every day).
$ps -ef | grep x2go root 17045 1 0 11:06 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/sbin/x2gocleansessions pberg 20099 7153 0 11:11 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/x2godesktopsharing
My client is a laptop, also running Ubuntu 16.04.
When I create a new session I see on my laptop both physical monitors from the server, divided vertically and of course blurred.
This is not usable. Can I somehow the client configure in way that I can switch between the two physical monitors from the server?
Best regards Thomas
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