I have one major problem with using X2Go, which is such a wonderful piece of software. No matter what I did, I could not get it to understand Alt-Tab for switching windows. Some say using Ctrl - Alt - K works but it has no effect.
Could someone please state clearly how this can be done.
thanks
Steve
ps. Using Debian and X2Go (on both server and client). I connect as XFCE which is also my client desktop.
Hi Steve,
From an X2Go developer's perspective, there are 2 approaches that NoMachine NX2 and/or NX3 used to use: https://www.nomachine.com/AR04C00174 Same page, but on web.archive.org: http://web.archive.org/web/20131011004546/http://www.nomachine.com/AR04C0017...
The "Ctrl + Alt + K" keyboard shortcut appears to not work with X2Go. The article implies that it existed in NX2, but not in NX3. And X2Go uses NX3 libs. I looked at /etc/x2go/keystrokes.cfg (part of the nx-libs package), and I do not see any other keyboard shortcut that can be used.
I'll try to find out what NX Client's "Grab the keyboard when the client has focus" option was exactly. X2Go Client does not have any option like that. It may have been an option for the client-side X server.
-Mike#2
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Steve Harman <stvharman@gmail.com> wrote:
I have one major problem with using X2Go, which is such a wonderful piece of software. No matter what I did, I could not get it to understand Alt-Tab for switching windows. Some say using Ctrl - Alt - K works but it has no effect.
Could someone please state clearly how this can be done.
thanks
Steve
ps. Using Debian and X2Go (on both server and client). I connect as XFCE which is also my client desktop.
x2go-user mailing list x2go-user@lists.x2go.org http://lists.x2go.org/listinfo/x2go-user
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Michael DePaulo <mikedep333@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Steve Harman <stvharman@gmail.com> wrote:
I have one major problem with using X2Go, which is such a wonderful piece of software. No matter what I did, I could not get it to understand Alt-Tab for switching windows. Some say using Ctrl - Alt - K works but it has no effect.
Could someone please state clearly how this can be done.
thanks
Steve
ps. Using Debian and X2Go (on both server and client). I connect as XFCE which is also my client desktop.
x2go-user mailing list x2go-user@lists.x2go.org http://lists.x2go.org/listinfo/x2go-user Hi Steve,
From an X2Go developer's perspective, there are 2 approaches that NoMachine NX2 and/or NX3 used to use: https://www.nomachine.com/AR04C00174 Same page, but on web.archive.org: http://web.archive.org/web/20131011004546/http://www.nomachine.com/AR04C0017...
The "Ctrl + Alt + K" keyboard shortcut appears to not work with X2Go. The article implies that it existed in NX2, but not in NX3. And X2Go uses NX3 libs. I looked at /etc/x2go/keystrokes.cfg (part of the nx-libs package), and I do not see any other keyboard shortcut that can be used.
I'll try to find out what NX Client's "Grab the keyboard when the client has focus" option was exactly. X2Go Client does not have any option like that. It may have been an option for the client-side X server.
-Mike#2
Whoops, I top posted by accident. I changed my reply to a bottom post.
Whoops. That link was specific to Windows clients. Sorry for any confusion. Someone else might be able to help you with the Linux client. If no one replies after a while, follow these instructions to submit a "Feature requests / Wishlist bug". http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/wiki:bugs
-Mike#2
On 08/10/2014 11:14 AM, Michael DePaulo wrote:
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Michael DePaulo <mikedep333@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Steve Harman <stvharman@gmail.com> wrote:
I have one major problem with using X2Go, which is such a wonderful piece of software. No matter what I did, I could not get it to understand Alt-Tab for switching windows. Some say using Ctrl - Alt - K works but it has no effect.
I don't seem to have the original post beyond what is quoted. But Alt-Tab works perfectly fine for me on the Linux client:
X2Go Client V. 4.0.2.0 (Qt - 4.8.2)
in full-screen mode under MATE 1.8.0 on Debian Wheezy. In windowed mode, my local MATE desktop intercepts the Alt-Tab. (CTRL-ALT-F toggles between full-screen and windowed modes.)
-Steve Bergman
Thank you Mike and Steve B.
Steve B. yes Ctrl - Alt - F works in my case and then Alt tab only switches the programs on the server side. This is what i wanted.
However, Ctrl - Alt - F in my case covers both of my screens (laptop and external monitor) and become a xinerama view even though this option is not selected in my session preferences in the x2goclient.
Furthermore, coming back from full screen makes X2Go session window non-usable; there is a group of windows that are frozen. So, my only approach after coming back from full screen is to suspend the session and then try to reconnect.
So, how can I
- go to full screen by covering only one of my screens
- come back from full screen in a normal way
thanks again in advance
Steve H
ps I use XFCE on my client and server -- both are wheezy)
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Steve Bergman <sbergman27@gmail.com> wrote:
On 08/10/2014 11:14 AM, Michael DePaulo wrote:
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Michael DePaulo <mikedep333@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Steve Harman <stvharman@gmail.com> wrote:
I have one major problem with using X2Go, which is such a wonderful piece of software. No matter what I did, I could not get it to understand Alt-Tab for switching windows. Some say using Ctrl - Alt - K works but it has no effect.
I don't seem to have the original post beyond what is quoted. But Alt-Tab works perfectly fine for me on the Linux client:
X2Go Client V. 4.0.2.0 (Qt - 4.8.2)
in full-screen mode under MATE 1.8.0 on Debian Wheezy. In windowed mode, my local MATE desktop intercepts the Alt-Tab. (CTRL-ALT-F toggles between full-screen and windowed modes.)
-Steve Bergman
x2go-user mailing list x2go-user@lists.x2go.org http://lists.x2go.org/listinfo/x2go-user
On 08/11/2014 03:32 PM, Steve Harman wrote:
So, how can I
- go to full screen by covering only one of my screens
- come back from full screen in a normal way
thanks again in advance
I have no experience at all with this kind of setup. But what happens if you select "Fullscreen" in the settings tab from the start? Or select "Use whole display" and select the appropriate display?
-Steve
+1 for the ability to use Alt-Tab in "Windowed" mode. I tried running a custom 'vcxsrv' instance using the "-keyhook" argument. However, it appears that vcxsrv ignores keyook in 'multiwindow' mode. I experimented with rootless mode, but it had some other issues (similar to steve's).
Is it possible to patch 'vcxsrv' to support 'keyhook' and 'multiwindow' simultaneously?
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Steve Bergman <sbergman27@gmail.com> wrote:
On 08/11/2014 03:32 PM, Steve Harman wrote:
So, how can I
- go to full screen by covering only one of my screens
- come back from full screen in a normal way
thanks again in advance
I have no experience at all with this kind of setup. But what happens if you select "Fullscreen" in the settings tab from the start? Or select "Use whole display" and select the appropriate display?
-Steve
x2go-user mailing list x2go-user@lists.x2go.org http://lists.x2go.org/listinfo/x2go-user
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Eric Sirianni <eric.sirianni@gmail.com> wrote:
+1 for the ability to use Alt-Tab in "Windowed" mode. I tried running a custom 'vcxsrv' instance using the "-keyhook" argument. However, it appears that vcxsrv ignores keyook in 'multiwindow' mode. I experimented with rootless mode, but it had some other issues (similar to steve's).
Is it possible to patch 'vcxsrv' to support 'keyhook' and 'multiwindow' simultaneously?
I'm maintaining a fork of vcxsrv called vcxsrv-xp. It is what X2Go Client for Windows uses. https://sourceforge.net/u/mikedep333/vcxsrv/ci/xp-fixesonly/tree/
Patches Welcome (TM)
Also, please report this to our bug tracker if it is not already reported: http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/wiki:bugs?s[]=bugs
Even if the fix will only apply to the vcxsrv-xp source code, we should still track it in our bug tracker.
-Mike
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Steve Bergman <sbergman27@gmail.com> wrote:
On 08/11/2014 03:32 PM, Steve Harman wrote:
So, how can I
- go to full screen by covering only one of my screens
- come back from full screen in a normal way
thanks again in advance
I have no experience at all with this kind of setup. But what happens if you select "Fullscreen" in the settings tab from the start? Or select "Use whole display" and select the appropriate display?
-Steve
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