[X2Go-User] Questions about sessions

[Mihai Moldovan]

On 05.03.2015 10:29 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Don't you run into trouble with applications clobbering their own
> hidden files or things like firefox launching what you expected to be
> a new instance as a window in one of the suspended sessions instead?
> And when reconnecting, how do you distinguish which session you want?

I do not. But this is merely because I am not starting multiple desktop
sessions at a time or applications that do not support concurrency, but
"plain" stuff like xterms or the like.

I'll give an example:

Currently, I have a session running on my server for "video editing"
purposes. This session is rootless and consists of 3 xterms, from which
I start a video player (mpv) every now and then or edit text files or
move stuff around. I do not want to use this session but merely for this
"video editing".

This said, when working on x2goclient or x2goserver, I have to start a
new session quite often. Maybe because some issue I'm looking into is
dependent on x2goserver's or x2goclient's behavior *when starting a
session* or because I have to explicitly test a non-rootless mode (like
custom desktop via fluxbox.)

I also have another session with xterms and an application running
exclusively for some other, undisclosed purpose.

For my use case, I want the terminals and applications to be independent
from each other and I don't really use a desktop session or browser
regularly.


This use case is totally different from your thinclient-like use case.
And that's fine. You want integration, I want isolation. X2Go is
supposed to support both. We really try to satisfy all
reasonable/generic use cases.



Mihai

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