[X2Go-User] Fedora 36 and glx fails with GLXUnsupportedPrivateRequest

[Neal Becker]

sairuk wrote:

> Maybe they did, couldn't say. my use case probably won't be a popular one
> but i'll run it through it anyway. My setup might not even be optimal so I
> am happy to consider advice.
> 
> This was a finding while I was investigating why Zoom started crashing
> after the whiteboard update (only if the whiteboard was open, and it was
> only for me). I've been using Zoom within x2go XFCE sessions since 2020
> without issue, (recommended or not) it works fine for daily use imo. I
> could rollback Zoom to 5.9.x series and it was/is fine. Unfortunately due
> to a vuln in the xmpp chat protocol implementation of Zoom min versions
> needed to be enforced at 5.10.x series which has the new whiteboard
> implementation.
> 
> Additional to updating Zoom I'd inplace upgraded the x2go endpoint OS from
> 20.04 (x2go glx working, mesa 21) to 22.04 (x2go glx broken, mesa 22)
> while on Zoom 5.9.x series client and only noticed some slight performance
> degradation in general session use but hadn't bothered to investigate it,
> I expect (now) it is related to the lack of glx.
> 
> Zoom will not start without the glx extension, and using
> LIBGL_INDIRECT_ALWAYS is problematic (slow) as were some other envars I
> was testing which broke a lot of additional stuff. I don't have my notes
> with me now though.
> 
>
If you just want to use zoom then use their web app instead of the native 
zoom app.  I always do this with zoom, teams, etc. because the options for 
sharing are better in chrome than the native apps.