On Sun, Sep 1, 2019 at 7:34 PM Alexanderstr Miete <alexstrbonn@gmail.com> wrote:
I was connecting with session type "Custom Desktop" Command: MATE. This worked very well in terms of lag/speed. Following your reply I changed to "session type "connect to local desktop)" and the permission issue did not appear anymore, however, there was a significant lag when working with the user interface - unusable really.
Well, I think I need to clarify something here: a) connecting with "Custom Desktop" will start a NEW session. b) connecting with "local desktop" will _connect_ to the running X-Server (usually :0) which is slower due to the way it works.
According to your description it works with type b) but not with a). I think in a session a) type you need to the environment to enable access the type b) session running in parallel.
Unfortunately I do not have the environment available to test this in detail.
So it would be great if I could still connect with the more "speedy" option "Custom Desktop" Command: MATE, but solve the privilige issue. Or do you have another solution? Thanks
P.S.: How come X2go does not have a user forum?
We have several mailing lists. As we are constantly struggling with (human) resources there are no plans to add a forum. As far as I can see most of the administrating members prefer mailing lists over clumsy web forums anyway.
Uli
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Dear Ulrich and developers Thank you for your reply. So as discussed option a) connecting with "Custom Desktop" will start a NEW session and results in permission prompts, which are not the case with option b. Most users I believe would like to feel as if they are sitting in front of their machine, hence this behaviour undermines this goal.
Any idea how a user could still connect with "Custom Desktop" Command: MATE, but solve the privilige issues? Thanks
Am So., 1. Sept. 2019 um 19:39 Uhr schrieb Ulrich Sibiller <uli42@gmx.de>:
On Sun, Sep 1, 2019 at 7:34 PM Alexanderstr Miete <alexstrbonn@gmail.com> wrote:
I was connecting with session type "Custom Desktop" Command: MATE. This worked very well in terms of lag/speed. Following your reply I changed to "session type "connect to local desktop)" and the permission issue did not appear anymore, however, there was a significant lag when working with the user interface - unusable really.
Well, I think I need to clarify something here: a) connecting with "Custom Desktop" will start a NEW session. b) connecting with "local desktop" will _connect_ to the running X-Server (usually :0) which is slower due to the way it works.
According to your description it works with type b) but not with a). I think in a session a) type you need to the environment to enable access the type b) session running in parallel.
Unfortunately I do not have the environment available to test this in detail.
So it would be great if I could still connect with the more "speedy" option "Custom Desktop" Command: MATE, but solve the privilige issue. Or do you have another solution? Thanks
P.S.: How come X2go does not have a user forum?
We have several mailing lists. As we are constantly struggling with (human) resources there are no plans to add a forum. As far as I can see most of the administrating members prefer mailing lists over clumsy web forums anyway.
Uli
x2go-user mailing list x2go-user@lists.x2go.org https://lists.x2go.org/listinfo/x2go-user
On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 5:11 PM Alexanderstr Miete <alexstrbonn@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Ulrich and developers Thank you for your reply. So as discussed option a) connecting with "Custom Desktop" will start a NEW session and results in permission prompts, which are not the case with option b. Most users I believe would like to feel as if they are sitting in front of their machine, hence this behaviour undermines this goal.
Yes, you need to adapt the polkit configuration but I don't know what exactly needs to be done. Some links that might point into the right direction:
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/docs/latest/polkit.8.html (search for "local") https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/96054/non-root-user-cannot-control-... https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=12402 https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Polkit
Sunweaver has been dealing with polkit stuff recently but he's on vacation so we cannot ask ATM. I'll set him on cc:
Sorry for the inconvenience,
Uli