[X2Go-User] GNOME and Unity can not launch

[Heng Zhou]

Thank you for the reply. gnome-shell --version reports 3.10.4 and
gnome-session --version returns 3.9.90 with no composite extension in the
server. I am not an administrator of the remote server, so it seems that I
have to give up gnome. What about Unity then? It's the default GUI for
ubuntu.

PS: Mate desktop works but I don't know how to play with it.


On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 8:28 PM, Robert Dinse <nanook at eskimo.com> wrote:

>
>      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.
>>
>>
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