[X2Go-Dev] Mac Client status

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 18:21 +0100, Mihai Moldovan wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> 
> * On 06.03.2012 09:48 AM, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> > You should wait for 3.99.1.1, I guess. There is an X-Server detection fix
> > (using unix socket, not TCP to connect to the local X-Server) in it.
> 
> Probably. :) I do have a got git-snapshot with this fix in place (or could
> easily fetch the newest changes and rebuild), but this "production-ready"
> requirement makes me hesitate. ;)
> 
> 
> > Mihai, is anything else needed to be patched into x2goclient.git currently for
> > Mac OS X?
> 
> Depends... here's a list of problems I FOUND (but not fixed):
> 
> - sometimes, I have to resume a session, restart the client, suspend the session
> and resume it again for it to be usable (first time resuming will just close the
> connection to the server), BUT IIRC this happens on Linux, too, so I can't
> actually blame the OS X part... (plus, it only happens sometimes. :()
> - Client seems to be working fine for me on OS X 10.6/Snow Leopard. But:
>   - has some weird memleak on OSX 10.5 (not always, again...)
>   - Stephan reported problems on 10.7 which seem to be SSH-related, I've gotta
> take a look at that, no idea if I can figure it out though. Looks like a libssh
> problem, but at least I've got some debug output.
> 
> No concrete code fixes from my side yet though.
<snip>
I have noticed that problem in Linux.  I think it is an SSH timing
issue.  The connecting, suspending, reconnecting is not actually doing
anything, I believe, except functioning as a rudimentary clock.  If one
just waits five minutes after being abruptly disconnected, all
reconnects fine :( - John