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). -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com