[CentOS] Freenx/x2go on CentOS7?

Mon Jul 28 16:39:00 UTC 2014
Tom Bishop <bishoptf at gmail.com>

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:25 AM, SilverTip257 <silvertip257 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Can anyone comment on the best remote GUI approach for C7 yet?
>>> X2goserver is in epel but when I tried it on the RHEL beta it only
>>> worked with a KDE desktop due to the 3d requirement of Gnome3.
>>>
>>
>> I toyed around with FreeNX on a Fedora (17 maybe?) system some time ago.
>>
>> I had to modify a few settings so GNOME3 would default to classic/fallback
>> mode.
>> -- set COMMAND_START_GNOME to "/usr/bin/gnome-session --session=gnome"
>>
>> There is also a bug [0] where the session didn't get set properly and the
>> display mode.
>> -- use Ctrl-Alt-R to get into desktop resize mode
>> -- in my case I had to hit that key sequence twice
>>
>> [0] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=838028
>>
>>
>> Maybe a few of these bugs(?) will get resolved now that GNOME3 is the
>> default for EL7 along with FreeNX...
>>
>>
>> Please give these suggestions a shot and report back!
>> I haven't pursued this further due to lack of time and shell access is all
>> I really need. ;-)
>
> Gnome3 still doesn't work with the default configuration but MATE
> desktop is now in EPEL and seems to work nicely (just like gnome2).
>
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>     Les Mikesell
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+1 I have x2go working with mate and xfce, xfce had a dependency issue
but has since been corrected and works also.