On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 6:24 PM, Torsten Kupke <tkansgar@t-online.de> wrote:
Hi all,
on my working PC there is running Ubuntu 16.04 with MATE Desktop (isn't the same as Ubuntu MATE, right?) and a X2go Server with Desktop Sharing extension. On my home PC with Windows 10 I have installed the X2go Client and inside it configured a session connecting to the Ubuntu host according to https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:usage:desktop-sharing. The connection is successful, but there are some issues:
The Ubuntu host's desktop is spread over two 4/3 screens. But The Windows PC only has one screen with 1680x1050 Pixels. So the display from the Ubuntu host is highly horizontally compressed, so that the texts are nearly unreadable. OK, this behaviour is documented, but is there a way to get it more readable?
One solution could be to switch to full screen and then activating resize mode. Normally this is done by pressing ctrl-alt-r. Unfortunately this broken currently so you have to do some adjustment first: Open /usr/bin/x2gostartagent in an editor and change this line export NX_CLIENT="${X2GO_LIB_PATH}/x2gosuspend-agent" to export NX_CLIENT="/bin/true"
I have not used connecting to local sessions for a long time so I am not sure if the resize mode is working then.
If I (to solve the above issue) switch to something other than full screen mode in the session settings, the session crashes, when started. I have to close and restart the X2go Client. And then with settings set back to full screen mode the session runs again. Is there a way to avoid the crash without full screen mode?
We are currently trying to find the reasons for several crashes. This one sounds like https://github.com/ArcticaProject/nx-libs/issues/679
In full screen mode I cannot see any mouse cursor. So hitting any user elements inside or on the windows inside the display from the Ubuntu host is very difficult, since they are reduced to half the width. Is there a way to see a mouse cursor? Or is this due to the compressed display?
Oh dear, someone else reported this, but I have no idea what is causing this. See here: https://github.com/ArcticaProject/nx-libs/issues/86
Since mouse using is so difficult, I tried to close the windows from the Ubuntu host by pressing <Alt><F4>. But then I get a question from X2go to close the session. Is there a way to propagate key combinitions like <Alt><F4> to the remote host?
I have implemented something like that but it is not fully working yet. And it is completely untested with windows. https://github.com/ArcticaProject/nx-libs/pull/393
Uli