[X2Go-Dev] Running X2Go on Mac OS

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi Tomas,

On  Di 21 Jun 2022 20:23:35 CEST, Tomáš Cerha wrote:

> Dear list members,
>
> I recently managed to make our python-x2go based app run on Mac OS  
> with some tiny changes to python-x2go, so I wanted to  share these  
> changes with others and suggest merging them upstream.
>
> The first problem was in defaults.py, which includes some specific  
> settings for different OSes based on platform.system().  The problem  
> is, that the section for Mac OS wrongly assumes that  
> platform.system() returns ‘Mac’, while it actually returns ‘Darwin’.  
>  AFAIK, it has always been so.  For more insight see for example  
> https://bugs.python.org/issue7850.  The attached file  
> 0001-Fix-Mac-OS-recognition.patch fixes that.
>
> The second problem was that we need to install the NX proxy binary  
> to a different path than "/usr/bin/nxproxy”.  For that purpose I  
> made use of the environment variable NXPROXY_BINARY which is already  
> used on Windows.  This is implemented by the second patch file  
> 0002-Respect-NXPROXY_BINARY-also-on-non-Windows-systems.patch.  For  
> consistency, it might also make sense to use this variable only if  
> it contains a valid path, as it is done on Windows, but I didn’t do  
> that in the patch.
>
> Thank you for considering merging these patches upstream and thank  
> you for the great work on X2Go.
>
> Best regards
>
> Tomas Cerha

Thanks for your contributions. Patches for Mac OS X have been applied now.

Mike
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