The source of the stty turned out to be in my own .bashrc, don't know
how I managed to miss it or why it did not stop x2go from working on any other distribution (centos 6/7, SL 6/7, debian, mint, ubuntu), all of those distributions worked in spite of it. Also don't know why .bashrc was sourced when my normal login shell is ksh.
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