[X2Go-Project] Upcoming Deprecation of EOL Distributions

[Robert Dinse]

      Can't figure out where mate has start up scripts.  The mate-session
start up is a binary.  There is an /etc/mate/xrandr directory with no contents
and no man page.  It does not source .bashrc or .profile.

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On Tue, 23 Aug 2016, Mihai Moldovan wrote:

> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 16:43:52 +0200
> From: Mihai Moldovan <ionic at ionic.de>
> To: Robert Dinse <nanook at eskimo.com>
> Cc: "x2go-project at lists.x2go.org" <x2go-project at lists.x2go.org>
> Subject: Re: [X2Go-Project] Upcoming Deprecation of EOL Distributions
> 
> On 21.08.2016 08:54 PM, Robert Dinse wrote:
>>       Since Launchpad is taking care of it then why worry about it.
>
> Because I *have* to go through every package and enable new builds - that's not
> done automatically. An additional click while I'm on it won't kill me. :)
>
>
>>       I am having problems with x2go on 16.04.1 LTS that were not a problem
>> on 15.10.  When I connect using display 1, x2go locally takes over my whole
>> display BUT only draws a tiny window for the remote site in the upper left
>> corner.
>>
>>       If I try to use System -> Preferences -> Hardware -> Displays to change
>> the resolution to the 1680x1050 of my local screen it says "Could Not Get
>> Scren Information, RANDR extension is too old, must be at least 1.3", but
>> if I do xrandr -v it tells me randr program version 1.5 but server reports
>> randr version 1.2.
>
> Good debugging, that's probably the reason why it shows such behavior. I assume
> in 15.10, MATE (or whatever component is responsible of resizing on window size
> changes) didn't require RANDR 1.3 yet, but only 1.2, which the current nx-libs
> does provide.
>
> If that changed with the packages in 16.04, we're in for trouble. I don't think
> it makes sense to backport RANDR 1.3 to nx-libs 3.5, but instead have it on the
> agenda for 3.6. X2Go is scheduled to eventually switch to 3.6 anyway and at
> least the nightly repository can coexist with both 3.5.0.x and 3.5.99 as
> released by Arctica last month.
>
>
>>       My present work around is to type:
>>
>>  	xrandr -s 1680x1050
>>
>>       Every time I login but that is kind of a pain in the arse.
>
> It is.
>
> Try to automate it by creating a startup item in your desktop environment and
> running this as a script.
>
> Still a hacky workaround, but you'll save yourself the pain of doing that manually.
>
>
>
> Mihai
>
>