[X2Go-User] Shared folders and .dot files

[Orion Poplawski]

On 10/26/2015 05:53 AM, Klaus Fuerstberger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm sharing a Java application over x2go which is started as single
> application. Now there is a problem to access the shared folder of the
> client.
>
> x2gomountdirs mounts the folder as a link to /tmp/.x2go-{$USER}/... When
> the java applications file chooser dialog wants to access /media then
> the selection jumps to /tmp but cannot find the hidden folder
> /tmp/.x2go-{$USER} directory, because it is a hidden .dot directory.
>
> Is ist possible to change the hardcoded directories to another, not
> hidden path, eg. /tmp/x2go-{$USER}... and additionally move the
> temporary files to the users home directory?

If x2go needs to manipulate any files as root (I do not know), then this 
needs to not be in the home directory which could be on NFS.  I agree 
though that it shouldn't be hidden, and also suggest that it should be 
in XDG_RUNTIME_DIR.

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