[X2Go-User] First Time Woes

[Robert Dinse]

      I have KDE, xfce, and Mate all working under Ubuntu, nothing special with
any of the installs but this is under 14.04 LTS and 14.10, haven't tried
15.04 (yet).

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On Thu, 23 Apr 2015, Eric Kolotyluk wrote:

> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 13:23:00 -0700
> From: Eric Kolotyluk <eric.kolotyluk at gmail.com>
> To: Robert Dinse <nanook at eskimo.com>
> Cc: x2go-user at lists.x2go.org
> Subject: Re: [X2Go-User] First Time Woes
> 
> OK, I had to install MATE, and was able to get it working. None of the others 
> worked, including KDE.
>
> Thanks for the tip, much appreciated.
>
> At this point, I would suggest adding to your documentation that for Ubuntu 
> 15.04 people use http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download and follow the steps 
> for Ubuntu 14.04 with "Ubuntu MATE"
>
> My next step is to see if I can get this working on an EC2 instance.
>
> Cheers, Eric
>
> On 2015-04-23 12:51 PM, Robert Dinse wrote:
>>
>>      For now you need to use a non-compositing Desktop such as Mate or KDE,
>> compositing desktops don't presently work with X2Go.  My understanding is
>> that work is currently being done to remedy this.
>>
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>> On Thu, 23 Apr 2015, Eric Kolotyluk wrote:
>> 
>>> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 12:47:49 -0700
>>> From: Eric Kolotyluk <eric.kolotyluk at gmail.com>
>>> To: x2go-user at lists.x2go.org
>>> Subject: [X2Go-User] First Time Woes
>>> 
>>> Installed x2go server on Ubuntu 15.04 (running under VMWare Workstation on 
>>> Windows 8.1)
>>> 
>>> Installed x2go client on Windows 8.1
>>> 
>>> I am now able to connect to Ubuntu, but all I get is a blank x2go window. 
>>> My profile has the Unity desktop manager selected, but nothing happens and 
>>> I have to force the connection closed.
>>> 
>>> When I do a 'ps aux | grep x2go" I can see lots of stuff running, but 
>>> Unity is not running in my x2go window. I can see the following running
>>> 
>>> x2gocleansessions
>>> x2goruncommand
>>> x2goagent
>>> 
>>> So far my experience is, like every other X/Windows I have ever used, it 
>>> is a royal pain in the .... to get things configured and working.
>>> 
>>> Where do I go from here?
>>> 
>>> - Eric
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