Hi Jon, hi Michael,
On Mo 30 Jun 2014 05:18:06 CEST, Michael DePaulo wrote:
Anyway after some digging on that error message, I figured out that
my problem was that my Bitnami AMI had me signing in as username
"ubuntu" which is really just an alias to the user "bitnami". But
because I was signed in as a different username than the name of
the home folder, it was messing up. When I logged instead using
"bitnami" as the username, then suddenly it worked... kind of.OK. I think I this should be documented on the wiki as under a page like "known issues with virtual appliances." Or "common configuration issues." I'll take care of that. I want to see if there is an existing page 1st. Thank you for documenting it via this email.
Jon, can you explain this in more depth. I am not getting what
happened during authentication that lead to this weird observation.
Mike#2, I am sure there is nothing of that kind documented, so far.
OK, I think I see the problem. "ubuntu-desktop". You have the UNITY desktop environment installed, not vanilla GNOME. Please try specifying "UNITY" as your session type. Our logic in the "x2goserver" package will make sure Unity runs in Unity 2d mode. This mode is provided by package "unity-2d". "ubuntu-desktop" depends on "unity-2d", so you do have "unity-2d" installed.
Unity 2D support ended with Ubuntu 12.04. More recent Ubuntu versions
lack Unity 2D support and thus, X2Go won't connect to those Unity
variants.
Also, as for XFCE:
It's lightweight and it never tries to use 3d effects, so it runs faster to one degree or another.
I recommend installing it according to my instructions.
Absolutely, you can have both desktop environments installed. If you had a physical machine, you would select which desktop environment to use at the display manager's greeter (the graphical login screen.)
I second that!
Greets, Mike
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