On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Peter Brodsky <brodsky@apl.washington.edu> wrote:
Wow - Looks like I opened quite a can of worms here.
How I came to be using Mint 15 is a long story, but basically when Ubuntu 10.04 (which I loved) went stale, I started looking at upgrading. Ubuntu 12 was awful, 13 was not much better. I, and several colleagues, despised the interface (Gnome, KDE, didn't matter), especially the loss (or "enhancement") of some very useful simple tools; like Alt-Tab for cycling through windows. Mint/Mate offered the closest look & feel to Ubuntu 10.04, so we started running with it. The fact that I've got 15 is probably bad luck - I started Minting just before its base (Ubuntu 13.04) went stale.
1st, I need to know. Are you using 32-bit or 64-bit?
2nd, the MATE desktop environment runs great under X2Go. But if you are using the Cinnamon desktop environment, I am not sure if the version of Cinnamon in Linux Mint 15, 1.8, is compatible or not. I think it is, I'll test it before I upload the packages for you. I recently tested 1.4 (Linux Mint 13) successfully and I think that I recently updated the logic in x2goserver to accommodate the filepaths for Cinnamon 1.8.
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BTW, I did try building X2GO directly from source, per the directions here: http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/sources:start But that failed miserably.
Those instructions are woefully incomplete. I will update them as I go along building.
Given all the options... I'll look into upgrading to Mint 17. This is tricky given the application (losing our primary control system computer for any length of time is a very bad thing), but perhaps this is the best long-term solution.
In the long run, upgrading to an LTS release is indeed your best solution.
At the same time - Mike I'll take you up on your offer to build a Debian package for me. I am familiar with Git, of course, but have not built .deb packages.
See my 1st question above.
Thanks All,
- Pete
-Mike