I want to travel light and still be able to connect "back home" via x2go if something needs my attention. I will be carrying an Android tablet, so it would be great if I could use that (along with an external mouse & keyboard). I see several options, but no clear indication of which is best:
- Android with the work-in-progress client
- Get a dual-boot tablet (Android/Win 10) and use x2go under Windows 10
- Dual-boot with Android & Linux and run x2go under Linux
I don't need sound or file sharing or printing, but I do need the setup to be reliable. Has anyone tried this? Has it worked for you?
thanks,
Steve Gaarder System Administrator, Dept of Mathematics Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA gaarder@math.cornell.edu
Haven't done anything on an android tablet but I've used x2go clients under Windows, Linux, and MacOS, and it hands down works the best under Linux. One nice thing about Linux is that with virtual desktops you can run multiple invocations connected to multiple servers. It does have a bug that sometimes when you setup a second or third connection it will knock down the existing connection and you have to re-establish. But if you set them up full screen then you can use cont-alt--> and cont-alt-<- to move between x2go sessions. Windows, no native virtual desktop. It also seems to be more sluggish and less responsive under Windows.
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On Mon, 6 Jun 2016, Steve Gaarder wrote:
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 10:28:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Gaarder <gaarder@math.cornell.edu> To: x2go-user@lists.x2go.org Subject: [X2Go-User] X2go on a tablet - options?
I want to travel light and still be able to connect "back home" via x2go if something needs my attention. I will be carrying an Android tablet, so it would be great if I could use that (along with an external mouse & keyboard). I see several options, but no clear indication of which is best:
- Android with the work-in-progress client
- Get a dual-boot tablet (Android/Win 10) and use x2go under Windows 10
- Dual-boot with Android & Linux and run x2go under Linux
I don't need sound or file sharing or printing, but I do need the setup to be reliable. Has anyone tried this? Has it worked for you?
thanks,
Steve Gaarder System Administrator, Dept of Mathematics Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA gaarder@math.cornell.edu
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Am 07.06.2016 um 08:51 schrieb Robert Dinse:
It does have a bug that sometimes when you setup a second or third connection it will knock down the existing connection and you have to re-establish.
Whoa. That sounds interesting. Please try to describe the steps to trigger that as detailed as possible, and file a bug report, so interested developers have a chance to reliably reproduce it.
Kind Regards, Stefan
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Hello Stefan,
I can confirm this behavior using Linux Server and Clients. If I have a running connection to an Linux Server (Ubuntu 12.04) from a Linux Client (Ubuntu 14.04) and connect to another Linux Server (Ubuntu 14.04) (Xfce on all machines) the "first" connection breaks either immediately or after some minutes and I have to resume it...
Thought this is a known behavior / bug ...
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On 07.06.2016 09:03, Stefan Baur wrote:
It does have a bug that sometimes when you setup a second or third connection it will knock down the existing connection and you have to re-establish. Whoa. That sounds interesting. Please try to describe the steps to
Am 07.06.2016 um 08:51 schrieb Robert Dinse: trigger that as detailed as possible, and file a bug report, so interested developers have a chance to reliably reproduce it.
Kind Regards, Stefan
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Am 06.06.2016 um 16:28 schrieb Steve Gaarder:
I want to travel light and still be able to connect "back home" via x2go if something needs my attention. I will be carrying an Android tablet, so it would be great if I could use that (along with an external mouse & keyboard). I see several options, but no clear indication of which is best:
- Android with the work-in-progress client
I'm not sure what you mean by that. There is no work-in-progress X2Go client for Android. There's a technology preview X2Go Client for (Debian) Linux on the armhf architecture that can be used on Android devices.
I demo'ed that about two years ago on my old Motorola Droid 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h_kiY78Ks4
No one has worked on that ever since and the limitations from back then still apply:
We are running a fakeroot installation of Debian Wheezy within Android, this is clumsy at best. We need a native app.
We need to use xvncserver within the fakeroot, and androidVNC to connect to this local X screen, again, this is clumsy.
Applications are not touch-aware, which means menus and icons are too small for comfortable touchscreen use.
Without a hardware keyboard, you cannot enter a password to login (the on-screen keyboard in the video is a Firefox plugin, just like the enlarged Firefox buttons), nor can you type text.
There's no sound, no file sharing, no printer sharing.
For a native app, everything I heard from the devs so far was in the 10000 EUR to 15000 EUR price range when it comes to development costs.
Also, IIRC, due to some library issues, speed on Android will always be sub-par compared to our current native clients for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.
- Get a dual-boot tablet (Android/Win 10) and use x2go under Windows 10
- Dual-boot with Android & Linux and run x2go under Linux
I don't need sound or file sharing or printing, but I do need the setup to be reliable. Has anyone tried this? Has it worked for you?
Under the assumption that certain tablets come with Android and Linux preinstalled or can be installed that way, that seems to be the best choice, with Android/Windows dual-boot being #2.
Kind Regards, Stefan Baur
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