[X2Go-User] Is x2goserver available?

[Michael DePaulo]

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Peter Brodsky
<brodsky at apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> Wow - Looks like I opened quite a can of worms here.
>
> How I came to be using Mint 15 is a long story, but basically when Ubuntu
> 10.04 (which I loved) went stale,
> I started looking at upgrading.  Ubuntu 12 was awful, 13 was not much
> better.  I, and several colleagues,
> despised the interface (Gnome, KDE, didn't matter), especially the loss (or
> "enhancement") of some very
> useful simple tools; like Alt-Tab for cycling through windows. Mint/Mate
> offered the closest look & feel to Ubuntu
> 10.04, so we started running with it.
> The fact that I've got 15 is probably bad luck - I started Minting just
> before its base (Ubuntu 13.04) went stale.

1st, I need to know. Are you using 32-bit or 64-bit?

2nd, the MATE desktop environment runs great under X2Go. But if you
are using the Cinnamon desktop environment, I am not sure if the
version of Cinnamon in Linux Mint 15, 1.8, is compatible or not. I
think it is, I'll test it before I upload the packages for you. I
recently tested 1.4 (Linux Mint 13) successfully and I think that I
recently updated the logic in x2goserver to accommodate the filepaths
for Cinnamon 1.8.

[...]
>
> BTW, I did try building X2GO directly from source, per the directions here:
>     http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/sources:start
> But that failed miserably.

Those instructions are woefully incomplete. I will update them as I go
along building.

> Given all the options... I'll look into upgrading to Mint 17.  This is
> tricky given the application (losing our
> primary control system computer for any length of time is a very bad thing),
> but perhaps this is the best
> long-term solution.

In the long run, upgrading to an LTS release is indeed your best solution.

> At the same time - Mike I'll take you up on your offer to build a Debian
> package for me.  I am familiar with
> Git, of course, but have not built .deb packages.

See my 1st question above.

>
> Thanks All,
>
> - Pete

-Mike