Stephan: Abject apologies - I misstated the issue. The tray icon is indeed for x2go desktopsharing, and that is exactly the function that I need to use. So the question I meant to ask, then, is whether there is a config file somewhere that will prevent more than one instance of desktopsharing to run in a particular account.
Xfce (what I normally use) doesn't provide any options to manage that aspect. Perhaps someone knows what config file to look at?
Thanks - and sorry for a bad initial post.
brian
Message: 6 Date: Sun, 3 May 2020 22:14:32 +0200 From: Stefan Baur <X2Go-ML-1@baur-itcs.de> To: x2go-user@lists.x2go.org Subject: Re: [X2Go-User] multiple instances of x2go server appearing in tray Message-ID: <5627b81b-c449-2f90-be24-f64ae2c1e409@baur-itcs.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Am 02.05.20 um 22:36 schrieb brian:
The only strange thing I'm encountering is that my tray will display up to 8 or 9 instances of x2goserver running at any one time. Only one will show OK (green check mark), the others will show with a red 'x' instead. The number of x-ed out server instances vary. Might be one. Might be 8. Entirely random. See attached photo. I can close each x-ed out entry indivdually and x2goserver still works just fine after that. In fact it shows no problems at all; works perfectly.
That's not X2GoGserver. In fact, X2GoServer doesn't display any icons in your tray (X2GoClient does that on the client side, obviously).
What you're seeing there looks like the applet belonging to the X2Go package <https://packages.debian.org/buster/x2godesktopsharing>, from what I can tell.
If you don't need that particular feature, it should be safe to simply uninstall that package. If you do want to use it, you need to find out why the applet is being started multiple times.
-Stefan
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Am 04.05.20 um 19:03 schrieb b salzano:
Stephan: Abject apologies - I misstated the issue. The tray icon is indeed for x2go desktopsharing, and that is exactly the function that I need to use. So the question I meant to ask, then, is whether there is a config file somewhere that will prevent more than one instance of desktopsharing to run in a particular account.
I must admit, I've never really used desktopsharing that much. So my memory may be hazy.
But if I remember correctly, desktopsharing consists of two packages - one for actually handling desktopsharing, and one for letting the user know when desktopsharing is active (and providing users with a way to toggle it on and off).
So if you could live with it being permanently enabled with no visual indication, it would still suffice to uninstall this particular package.
x2godesktopsharing is the one for the GUI applet, while x2goserver-desktopsharing does all the heavy lifting in the background, if I'm not mistaken.
Xfce (what I normally use) doesn't provide any options to manage that aspect. Perhaps someone knows what config file to look at?
Sorry, someone else will have to answer that part. As I said I'm not really a user of desktopsharing myself - plus not a user of Xfce.
I do wonder, though, do you really need desktopsharing?
I mean, yes, obviously, if you're trying to support a remote user somewhere, you will need it.
But if you're trying to take over your own desktop at work so you can work from home, using a native X2Go session from the very start (connecting to localhost:22 while at work, and connecting to your-companys-external-ip:port while at home) will make things both easier and faster for you. The only thing to remember is that when logging in to start your X2Go-Xfce session at work, you need to pick a different desktop environment (a minimalistic Openbox with X2GoClient will suffice, maybe throw in tint2 as a task bar if you really need one)
- because running the same Desktop Environment twice, under the same user account, may cause issues.
-Stefan
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