[X2go-dev] Looking for information on the future of x2go (and some other x2go-related stuff)

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 09:08 -0800, John Williams wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 9:05 AM, John A. Sullivan III
> <jsullivan at opensourcedevel.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 08:46 -0800, John Williams wrote:
> >> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 7:40 AM, John A. Sullivan III
> >> <jsullivan at opensourcedevel.com> wrote:
> >> > On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 01:22 -0800, John Williams wrote:
> >> >> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Stefan Baur
> >> >> <newsgroups.mail2 at stefanbaur.de> wrote:
> >> >> > Um, no. As posted here
> >> >> > <https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/x2go-dev/2011-March/001837.html>,
> >> >> > pulseaudio works after adding asound.conf and changing
> >> >> > /etc/icewesel/iceweaselrc on the host.
> >> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> I'm not sure what you are saying. Do you mean your x2go server was
> >> >> misconfigured?
> >> >>
> >> >> Because I did not have to make any server configuration changes when
> >> >> using 3.01-13 client for working sound. Then when I uninstalled
> >> >> 3.01-13 and installed 3.01-18, sound was broken.
> >> > <snip>
> >> > That might be because of the missing ~/.ssh directory.  That will need
> >> > to be added to the installer whenever we finalize it - John
> >>
> >> What might be because of the missing ~/.ssh directory? Broken sound???
> >>
> >> I have the .ssh directory that I created (months ago) in my home
> >> directory, and it was still there when I ran 3.01-18.
> > <snip>
> > Yes.  Without it, libssh will fail to place necessary files (not sure if
> > it is known_hosts or authorized_keys) and thus cannot establish the ssh
> > connections needed to bring sound, file sharing, and print back to the
> > local system - John
> 
> I'm still not following your reasoning. Why would you suggest that is
> the cause of broken sound on 3.01-18, but working sound on 3.01-13,
> even if you did not know that I do have an .ssh directory? Why would
> 3.01-13 sound work without a .ssh directory?
3.01-13 did not use libssh but rather cygwin for ssh.  Thus, the ~/.ssh
directory was not necessary - John