Hi everyone,
is it possible to restrict a x2go session to a certain amount of moitors / displays?
Usage: I got 4 monitors connected to to my developer machine. The goal is to use 3 monitors for one x2go session and 1 monitor for the local machine.
Thanks for your help!
Regards, Thomas
Greetings.
On Thursday 07 March 2013, Thomas Lutz wrote:
is it possible to restrict a x2go session to a certain amount of moitors / displays?
Usage: I got 4 monitors connected to to my developer machine. The goal is to use 3 monitors for one x2go session and 1 monitor for the local machine.
Thanks for your help!
Shouldn't this be the responsibility of the window manager (or whatever the equivalent is on the OS and desktop environment you're using)? Knowing what OS and desktop environment you're running, and how your multimonitor setup is configured, would probably help.
Regards, Tristan
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Hi Tristan,
Tristan Miller <psychonaut@...> writes:
Knowing what OS and desktop environment and how your multimonitor setup is configured, would probably help.
My box is running Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS x86_64 The window manager is Gnome with GDMSESSION=ubuntu-2d
My complete xorg.conf can be found here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2122274
Shouldn't this be the responsibility of the window manager (or whatever the equivalent is on the OS and desktop environment you're using)?
I'm new to higher X11 magic. Shouldn't it be irrelevant which window manager I'm using?
My systems runs fine on Xinerama. When I activate the x2go Xinerama option, all of my 4 screens are recognised and the terminal session will run on 4 monitors.
It is also possible to tell x2go via configuration to use a "total screen" (1-4) which will run a single monitor.
What I'd like to do is a mix of the above. I'd like to configure x2go to an array of screens 1,2,3 that will run 3 monitors.
I hope it is just a x2go configuations thing. If it is possible at all.
Regards, Thomas
Greetings.
On Friday 08 March 2013, Thomas Lutz wrote:
Shouldn't this be the responsibility of the window manager (or whatever the equivalent is on the OS and desktop environment you're using)?
I'm new to higher X11 magic. Shouldn't it be irrelevant which window manager I'm using?
Well, the window manager is ultimately responsible for the placement and sizing of windows. I take it you've got X2Go set up to put an entire session in a single window? If so, then you could configure your window manager to always force a particular geometry for the X2Go window such that it spans three of your monitors. I don't have any knowledge of how Gnome's window manager does this, though on KDE this is fairly easy (right click on the window title bar, then Advanced->Special Application Settings-
Geometry).
Regards, Tristan
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Hi Tristan,
I succeeded by setting the x2go settings to a small custom-sized window. Afterwards I ajusted the window size with the mouse to fit as many monitors as I liked.
The Problem I'm running into now is that the Unity-2d Side-Bar of the Host system is always on top and hides some terminal content. But I am able to use 1 Monitor locally while working on 3 moitors remotely. :-)
To finish the job I have to read more about compiz. I'll have to remove the window decorators and automatically resize the x2go window when it is started.
Thanks for the help, Thomas
P.S. Doku for other Ubuntu users CCSM > Window Management > Window Rules http://wiki.compiz.org/WindowMatching
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