[X2go-user] Fwd: Hooking Up To A Running X-Session

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 13:35 +0200, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> <snip>

> What you can do is start an x2go session on your server, suspend this  
> session and resume it again (from some other client).
> 
> If you cannot find menu items for suspending sessions, you can open a  
> shell and run the following commands:
> 
>    x2golistsessions -> will show your current sessions on that server
> 
> The x2golistsessions command gives you the session id. It should look  
> like ,,mike-59-1302521405_stDGNOME_dp24'', it is the second field in  
> each line reported by x2golistsessions.
> 
> With the session id you can suspend your session:
> 
>    x2gosuspend-session mike-59-1302521405_stDGNOME_dp24
> 
> If you then login to the server again then you should be able to  
> resume this session (Fortsetzen/fortfahren in German, not sure which  
> one is used).
> 
> Of course, this scripting stuff is a little awkward. If you install  
> the package x2gognomebindings (for GNOME) or x2goplasmoid (for KDE4)  
> there should be a menu item that allows to suspend a session. With  
> x2goplasmoid I have seen situations that this does not work reliably,  
> but with GNOME there will definitely be a menu item in ,,System'' menu.
<snip>
We elected to create an icon which called the x2gosuspend-session-gnome
script.  We found when we installed x2gokdebindings that it stole the
end session button for terminate (which was fine) and the lock desktop
button for suspend which was definitely not fine because we wanted users
to be able to lock and step away from their virtual desktops.  Thanks -
John