[X2Go-User] Workaround for X2go's unclickable regions under Gnome 3

[Robert Dinse]

      If you have not tried Mate' you might give it a shot, it is essentially
gnome2 and works properly with x2go.

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On Sun, 25 Jun 2017, Jason Heeris wrote:

> Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2017 10:03:27 +1000
> From: Jason Heeris <jason.heeris at gmail.com>
> To: x2go-user at lists.x2go.org
> Subject: [X2Go-User] Workaround for X2go's unclickable regions under Gnome 3
> 
> I'm running X2go 4.1.0.0-0~1536~ubuntu17.04.1 under Ubuntu 17.04, using
> Gnome 3.24 as my desktop environment on the client. Unfortunately this
> means I keep running into bug #1072/#982, where the top of X2go's session
> screen is unclickable. Thus I can't close windows, open some menus, etc.
>
> See:
>
> https://bugs.x2go.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=982
> https://bugs.x2go.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1072
>
> I'm looking for a way to work around this without completely throwing out
> my workflow in general. Because my laptop screen is small, running anything
> less than full screen makes things fiddly and hard to do (plus mostly what
> I want to do involves graphics). I don't really want to close everything
> else I'm working on and log in again to XFCE to do something on the server.
>
> Is there a way to tweak X2go config or Gnome 3 to avoid this, or an
> extension somewhere that mitigates it? Even something I could run or change
> just before launching X2go that I could revert afterwards? Any suggestions
> would be appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Jason
>