On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 6:19 AM, Cristina Tanzi Tolenti <cristina.tanzitolenti@provincia.cremona.it> wrote:
Hi, I install x2goserver on my new desktop Ubuntu 14.04 (gnome-shell) and I would like to connect it with another Ubuntu or Windows over my lan. I choose gnome as session and when I try to connect I obtain a black screen. Help me please!! :-) Thanks Cristina
Hi Cristina,
Sorry that you are running into the issue.
1st of all, because you are on Ubuntu 14.04, it would be easiest if you would use a desktop environment other than GNOME3 or UNITY. KDE, XFCE and LXDE are included in Ubuntu 14.04 and work fine with X2Go. You can also install MATE (the fork of GNOME2) from http://mate-desktop.org/ . There are other desktop environments that I haven't listed.
However, it is possible to make GNOME3 work on Ubuntu 14.04. GNOME3 will use gnome-panel, not gnome-shell. There will also be bugs. For example, the desktop wallpaper does not show up
The email is not showing up on lists.x2go.org or gmane.org, but Eugene San sent the email forwarded below with the currently available fix for GNOME3.
His email is written from a developer's perspective. So below are user instructions I just wrote that you can follow.
- Add this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~eugenesan/+archive/ppa?field.series_filter=trusty
- Install all available updates from the PPA (if need be, I can narrow down which exact packages you need to update.)
- Install the following packages: gnome-panel gnome-applets gnome-session-flashback
- create the file /usr/local/bin/gnome-flashback.sh with the following contents: gnome-session --session=gnome-flashback
- Make that file executable
- In X2Go Client's session preferences, specify a "custom desktop" with the following "command": gnome-flashback.sh
Steps 1-2 are due to a bug in Ubuntu that we hope to fix soon. (The bug is that gnome-session checks for 3D acceleration, even though gnome-flashback doesn't require it.)
Step 3 will be required until we develop an easier solution for installing those packages. We are thinking of creating a metapackage that depends on them.
Steps 4-6 are due to a bug in x2goserver that has already been fixed in our git repo. When x2goserver 4.0.1.16 is released, it will contain the fix, and you will merely need to select "GNOME" as the session type in X2Go Client instead.
-Mike
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Eugene San <eugenesan@gmail.com> Date: Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 7:52 AM Subject: Re: [X2Go-Dev] FYI: I am working on x2go GNOME3 compatibility in Ubuntu 14.04 To: Michael DePaulo <mikedep333@gmail.com> Cc: x2go-dev@lists.x2go.org
Hi all,
Reading Michael's message and Andrew's article (http://www.webupd8.org/2014/04/how-to-install-and-tweak-gnome.html) inspired me to attempt to revive gnome-fallback (flashback) using x2go on Ubuntu14.04. Few hours later I have a solution. In addition to packages I was maintaining previously, I had to port and tweak, two more packages from gnome 3.12: gnome-desktop3 and gnome-session. You can find them at my PPA: https://launchpad.net/~eugenesan/+archive/ppa
To mimic full unity-2d scheme, please follow instructions in article: http://www.webupd8.org/2014/04/how-to-install-and-tweak-gnome.html In addition to instructions in article perform next:
- Install gnome-applets-window and add it's applet to panel.
- Install metacity and disable window decoration in full screen by invoking: gsettings set org.gnome.metacity show-maximized-titlebars false Note, there are some minor visual glitches, at which I might look later.
There is also a minor change to x2goruncommand: <Eugene San's patch to x2goruncommand>