[X2Go-User] GNOME and Unity can not launch

[Heng Zhou]

Thank you. So, if I may ask here, is there any other remote desktop
software that supports composition (and easy to use)?

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 10:58 PM, Robert Dinse <nanook at eskimo.com> wrote:

>
>      Unfortunately with Unity you have the same issue. Canonical has
> dropped
> Unity-2d support so that's a problem with X2go (and NX) as well.
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> On Wed, 8 Apr 2015, Heng Zhou wrote:
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>  Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 22:12:20 -0400
>> From: Heng Zhou <hzhou1 at cs.uml.edu>
>> To: Robert Dinse <nanook at eskimo.com>
>> Cc: x2go-user <x2go-user at lists.x2go.org>
>> Subject: Re: [X2Go-User] GNOME and Unity can not launch
>>
>>
>> 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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