[X2go-dev] x2go with Gnome 3 ?

[John Williams]

2011/5/3 Milan Knížek <knizek.confy at volny.cz>:

> Gnome 3 requires a hw support from the video card. Before the upgrade,
> have you successfully used some compositing window manager through x2go
> (compiz, metacity with compositing enabled)? I doubt so...
>
> Up until now, I have not heard any news that Gnome 3 would provide a
> fallback, which would be visually similar to the "normal" Gnome 3.
> (Canonical has such a plan for its Unity - to be released in autumn
> 2011.)
>
> This is by the way the reason, why I am in a search for a GNOME
> replacement...

No, I did not use a compositing window manager, just the default Gnome
2 settings which did work fine with x2go.

The "fallback" with Gnome 3 is not at all similar to "normal" Gnome.
It is not really a desktop environment at all -- seems like just a
window manager.

I have never tried KDE before, but I tried it after having this
problem. I could not stand it, and it had some compatibility problems
(it would not work properly with gnome-terminal -- the windows kept
auto-shrinking themselves).

Then I tried LXDE, and that works great with x2go and all my usual
programs. I also like the feel of it, and it seems fast (KDE felt slow
to me). So it looks like I am switching to LXDE.