[X2go-dev] Souce of Windows client available?

Arjen Roodselaar arjen at lindix.nl
Tue Sep 7 16:13:39 CEST 2010


Hi John,

Thank you for looking into this and your reply.

-----Original message-----
From: John A. Sullivan III <jsullivan at opensourcedevel.com>
Sent: Tue 09/07/10 14:07:04
To: x2go-dev at lists.berlios.de; 
Subject: Re: [X2go-dev] Souce of Windows client available?

> On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 09:48 +0200, Arjen Roodselaar wrote:
> > Hi list,
> > 
> > We considering migrating from our current Linux terminal servers solution to 
> X2GO. During tests however, we discovered copy/paste from a Windows client to 
> Linux server is not available. Since this is a show stopper for us we're 
> considering developing this ourself and contributing this functionality to the 
> project. Is the source of the latest Windows client available somewhere so we 
> can have a look at it?
> <snip>
> I'm not entirely sure but I believe a zip of the source is available
> here:
> http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=8454

I might be overlooking something, but unfortunately I can't find any sources on the page you suggested. Is it possible they're only visible for certain users?

> 
> I had started looking into the change you are looking for and it seems
> trivial.  The Xming parameters are hard coded and do not include
> --clipboard nor do they honor --fullscreen.  I had started to work on a
> patch but I do not have a good Windows development environment and the
> source failed to compile for me before making any changes - something
> about a GUI event being called in a thread (I believe Qt GUI events can
> only be called from the main thread and subordinate threads need to
> trigger an event in the main thread to alter the GUI).  I have not had
> the time to track it down.
> 
> I believe I heard that the fullscreen problem is fixed in the next X2Go
> release.  I do not know if the clipboard issue is.  I would be very
> interested in a fix for both issues.  Good luck - John
> 
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