[X2go-dev] local apps on a thin client anyhow?

[Jo-Erlend Schinstad]

On 20 April 2011 21:04, Meik Hellmund <Meik.Hellmund at math.uni-leipzig.de> wrote:
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> DISPLAY=0:0 and started an X app on the client - and voila, it appears
> in the client's x2go session. But it is not managed by the
> window manager since the window manager runs on the server.
> So it has no border and can'tmoved around etc.
> Is there some better way to do this? Is it possible to somehow stack a
> local and a server window manager?

What I've sometimes done, is to use the WM on the client and then run
rootless applications from x2go. For instance, if you use gnome-panel
on the server and the client, you can leave the bottom panel on the
client side and only leave the top panel on the server side. Then you
run gnome-panel as a rootless application from the server. This gives
you a top panel and a bottom panel. On the top panel, you have
application menus and when you start one, it's run as a rootless
application. The bottom panel then has a switcher for both local and
remote applications, so that's fairly seemless. On the bottom panel, I
then add an applications menu with only the applications I wish to run
locally.

Perhaps it's worth a try? Hope it helps.

Jo-Erlend Schinstad