[X2Go-User] GNOME and Unity can not launch

[Robert Dinse]

      Compositing desktops are not supported by either NX or X2Go at this point
to the best of my knowledge, so the answer would be no.

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On Wed, 8 Apr 2015, Heng Zhou wrote:

> Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 23:52:59 -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. 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:
>>
>>  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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