[X2Go-User] X2Go Windows Client on Windows 8

James M. Pulver jmp242 at cornell.edu
Wed Jun 11 15:13:06 CEST 2014


No problem for me, I use XMing quite a bit here for direct X forwarding... That said, I'd like the newer version working, so we'll try some things and e-mail you back.

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James Pulver
CLASSE Computer Group
Cornell University


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael DePaulo [mailto:mikedep333 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 9:10 AM
To: James M. Pulver
Cc: x2go-user at lists.x2go.org
Subject: Re: [X2Go-User] X2Go Windows Client on Windows 8

3.x used Xming (XMing "Public Domain Release") instead of VcXsrv.

Please help us debug this by doing what you said.

In the meantime though, you might want to try specifying Cygwin X11 or
Xming (Xming "Public Domain Release") as the external X server. You
specify an external X server under: Options -> Settings -> X-Server
settings. Note this bug though. At least you can workaround the bug:
http://bugs.x2go.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=109

If you need help figuring out the arguments to pass to Cygwin X11 or
Xming, I can probably help you later today or tomorrow.

-Mike#2

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 8:41 AM, James M. Pulver <jmp242 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> Yes, I can confirm I get nothing like that from the command line. I get the generic Windows "Program has failed to start". I'll try and get a screenshot later today, but one interesting point - while 4.0.1 and 4.0.2 are giving this error, a 3.x version installed and is working fine on the Windows 8 computer . . .
>
> --
> James Pulver
> CLASSE Computer Group
> Cornell University
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael DePaulo [mailto:mikedep333 at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 8:30 AM
> To: James M. Pulver
> Cc: x2go-user at lists.x2go.org
> Subject: Re: [X2Go-User] X2Go Windows Client on Windows 8
>
> Hi James,
>
> Can you confirm that you get no further details when you attempt to launch VcXsrv from the command-line?
>
> Here's an example of an error I get when launching it from the command line. (In this case, the workaround would be to add specify display :2 because I already have X2Go's VcXsrv instances running on :0 and :1).
> http://imgur.com/YjPJuJy
>
> -Mike#2
>
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 2:07 PM, James M. Pulver <jmp242 at cornell.edu> wrote:
>> We just get the Windows pop-up saying the program VcXsrv failed to start. No mention of a log file. This is with the version you linked me...
>>
>> --
>> James Pulver
>> CLASSE Computer Group
>> Cornell University
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michael DePaulo [mailto:mikedep333 at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2014 9:25 AM
>> To: James M. Pulver
>> Cc: x2go-user at lists.x2go.org
>> Subject: Re: [X2Go-User] X2Go Windows Client on Windows 8
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 8:55 AM, James M. Pulver <jmp242 at cornell.edu> wrote:
>>> We are having great success using the X2Go Client on Windows 7.
>>> However, some outside users are running Windows 8 or Windows Vista,
>>> and no matter what we can think to do, we cannot get the X2Go Client
>>> to run. It starts, freezes for a few seconds, says “Cannot Start X Server” and then exits.
>>>
>>> Is this a known problem with those OSs? Is there some configuration
>>> to make it work? Any ideas?
>>>
>>> James Pulver
>>>
>>> CLASSE Computer Group
>>>
>>> Cornell University
>>
>> Hi James,
>>
>> I am the maintainer of the Windows Client.
>>
>> I am sorry to hear that you are running into this issue.
>>
>> And I actually do most of my testing on my Windows 8.1 64-bit desktop.
>>
>> I have seen this problem happen occasionally for various reasons. I think they have always been due to external factors. So I suspect that some external factor is the cause.
>>
>> 1st, what version of X2Go Client are you using? For security fixes and bugfixes, you should be using 4.0.2.0+build2, but I will still troubleshoot this issue for you even if you are not:
>> http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:release-notes-mswin:x2goclient-4.0.2
>> .0
>>
>> 2nd, are you using 64-bit Windows Vista, 7 and 8 or 32-bit Windows Vista, 7 and 8?
>>
>> 3rd, is this option set in X2Go Client?
>> Options -> Setttings -> X-Server settings -> use integrated X-Server
>>
>> 4th, do you have any other X servers running? The only freeware and FOSS X servers are VcXsrv (which we bundle and use), Xming 6.9, and Cygwin X11. Commercial ones include Hummingbird/OpenText Exceed.
>>
>> 5th, can you try launching our bundled VcXsrv from the command-line and see if it launches successfully?
>>
>> Run this command on 64-bit windows from command prompt:
>> "C:\Program Files (x86)\x2goclient\VcXsrv\vcxsrv.exe" -multiwindow
>> -clipboard :0
>>
>> or this command on 32-bit windows from command prompt:
>> "C:\Program Files\x2goclient\VcXsrv\vcxsrv.exe" -multiwindow
>> -clipboard :0
>>
>> VcXsrv should start successfully. You should not see any output in command prompt. However, you should see the X server tray icon show up. You can right-click the icon to end the X server.
>>
>> Note that if VcXsrv does not start successfully, it should tell you that it wrote a log file with the errors. Please attach that log file to the reply.
>>
>> -Mike#2


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