Stefan:

Well you are correct in that it doesn't seem to be needed. I disabled it as a start-up application and it makes no difference on my ability to log in to the remote machine. Thinking about it now, I'm not sure of it's intended use; if I'm logging into an unattended remote machine and starting a new session, then desktop sharing is not required. If I'm logging in to a remote machine to share a desktop with someone local to it at the other end, they can always start the desktop sharing service manually. Either way it's not an issue.

Never the less, thank you for your informative responses.

brian

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Am 04.05.20 um 19:03 schrieb b salzano:

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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.

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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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