[X2Go-User] First Time Woes

[Eric Kolotyluk]

OK, I brought up Ubuntu 15.04 on an Amazon EC2 instance, installed x2go 
and MATE, and everything works.

The performance is really quite decent -- I am impressed.

For people like me who are terminally challenged, it is very sweet to 
have a desktop in the cloud.

Cheers, Eric

On 2015-04-23 1:23 PM, Eric Kolotyluk wrote:
> 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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