[X2Go-User] Issue With Desktop Sharing Function - No Updates On Client Screen

[Ulrich Sibiller]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 12:14 PM Sebastian Schneider
<schneider.seb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the reply Uli and sorry for the delay.
> I had no direct access to the server until today so I am only getting back now.
>
> To answer your question with as much detail:
>
> Server (Linux Arch)
> x2goserver 4.1.0.3-3
> https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/x2goserver/
> x2godesktopsharing 3.1.1.3-1 (however this doesn't actually work properly)
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/x2godesktopsharing/
>
> Client (Linux Mint)
> x2goclient 4.1.1.1-2ubuntu0.18.04.1
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/x11/x2goclient
>
> I was somewhat confused about the "nxagent". It isn't installed on either machine.
> I had a read about it (http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man1/nxagent.1.html)
>
> It wasn't installed as a requirement when pulling the x2go packages on either machine and neither is it documented on X2Go or Arch for standard installation.
> This might be silly question but is that required to work?

Yes, nxagent is the heart of the whole thing. In the first link above
to the x2goserver Arch page you can see that it has nxagent as
dependency. I don't know arch, but in a standard x2go setup you have
an nxagent binary somewhere and a link called x2goagent that points to
that binary. Maybe arch is only providing an x2goagent binary, I don't
know. When you are running an x2go session you can see a process
called x2goagent. You can run that binary like this: x2goagent
-version Please do this and report the output.

Uli