[X2go-User] X2Go client windows switching problems

[Mike]

On 02/15/12 16:26, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 21:08 +0100, Mike Gabriel wrote:
>    
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Di 14 Feb 2012 18:02:41 CET Mike wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> Long time user of NX related programs for some time now.  Mostly
>>> freenx, which has been driving me crazy lately.  I am a staunch
>>> Debian user and feel that it's unlikely that freenx will ever enter
>>> main there.  Hence my want to switch to X2Go.  I've been following
>>> and trying to get this working for me too long now.  The largest
>>> hurdle that is stopping me now is the inability to switch windows
>>> properly when using the windows X2Go client.
>>>
>>> <huge snip>
>>> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>>>        
>> @John Sullivan or maybe Stefan Baur: do you have any experience with
>> this??? A contribution is much appreciated!
>>
>>      
> <snip>
> Hi, Mike, et al.  I do have issues with the way the Windows client
> handles keyboard grabbing.  I tend to work exactly as the posting Mike
> describes and would prefer that<ALT><TAB>  worked within the virtual
> desktop and that either or both the magic pixel and keyboard shortcuts
> (<CTL>M,<CTL>F) worked but I do not have this issue.  I have seen what
> Mike describes but it is usually a network communications issue - very
> high latency or packet loss and happens on Linux as well as Windows.
> Hope that helps - John
>    

First Thank you Mike and John for the response.  I've narrowed this down 
a bit more.  My longshot hunch is that this lies with vcxsrv and not 
X2Go client.  I forgot to mention that the problem windows machine is 
Vista Home Premium SP2.  I pulled out a XP Home SP3 machine that is 
heading out and put 3.99.1.0 preview2 on that.  Disabled all sound, 
tunnels, sharing etc.  it works as it should.  The Vista machine still 
experience the same crap, no love for me...  Finally in a near fit I 
disabled nearly all the extra fluff that Vista comes with enabled.  Aero 
(or whatever their 3d junk is) isn't supported on this box anyway, all 
the other wiz bang options are now disabled.  Now I have a Vista that 
looks like XP and all the sudden X2Go works a charm.  I've lost the 
magic pixel, but alt + tab will switch me out and back to my session.  
Every machine that I've tried thus far will resume / suspend just 
dandy.   Most excellent!

Now maybe I'll go dust off the old iBook and see if a client will fire 
up on PPC.

Haven't tested PyHoca-GUI but I'm sure it will work now.  If I can 
narrow down more what the problem is I'll post a reply to this for the 
archives.  Still a rather strange problem.

Mike B