[X2Go-User] GNOME and Unity can not launch

[Robert Dinse]

      If the server is a modern Linux with Gnome 3 this will happen because
Gnome 3 uses a compositing desktop not compatible with X2Go.

      For me the fix was to install Mate desktop on the servers which is a
fork of Gnome 2 and is compatible with X2Go.

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On Wed, 8 Apr 2015, Heng Zhou wrote:

> Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 19:43:02 -0400
> From: Heng Zhou <hzhou1 at cs.uml.edu>
> To: x2go-user at lists.x2go.org
> Subject: [X2Go-User] GNOME and Unity can not launch
> 
> Hi,
>
> I installed the latest X2Go client, but it only works with KDE. When I
> tried to launch Unity and GNOME desktop, they always fail. To be specific,
> when I selected Unity, the desktop just flashes and disappear. When I
> selected GNOME, I got a black desktop window and VcXsrv reports an error
> saying "Cannot establish any listening socket - make sure an X server isn't
> already running". The contents of VCXSrv.0.log is:
>
> _XSERVTransSocketCreateListener: failed to bind listener
> _XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
> _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to create listener for inet6
> _XSERVTransSocketCreateListener: failed to bind listener
> _XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
> _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to create listener for inet
> (EE)
> Fatal server error:
> (EE) Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't
> already running(EE)
> (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
>
> I have no idea how to check if any X server is running on my computer. All
> the settings of X2Go are default. The remote machine is ubuntu 14.04. Any
> help? Thanks.
>