At 09:30 AM 11/17/2014, you wrote: >On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 11:06 AM, david <david at daku.org> wrote: > > > > > Thanks, Les, for that detail. I knew that x2go had a known bug, but didn't > > know the name of the missing package. I explicitly installed it, but I > > still get failure asking for the MATE desktop. To summarize, my client > > shows the X2go screen, then it goes away. > >The version that is working for me is >x2goserver-4.0.1.18-3.el7.x86_64. If that is not what you have, try: >yum--enablerepo=epel-testing update x2goserver >You might also have to do something to clean up the old sessions that >the broken version had started - I can't remember what else I might >have done. Also, if you can, make sure that MATE is working at the >console, and for the first attempts turn off the drive mapping and >sound to have fewer things that can break. > > > In response to others that suggested VNC, I used to use it, but was > > disappointed with the speed when used remotely. On an internal > LAN connect, > > it worked fine, but otherwise it became painful to use. NX became my next > > choice for Centos 6, but the x2go package became my favorite because of the > > ease of installation -- (nx needed lots of other things at setup, and > > appears unavailable for C7). > > > >So far I am still mostly using NX/freenx on a C6 system as my main >desktop with occasional 'ssh -Y ...' connections from there to C7 for >GUI programs. I think x2go will be a usable replacement, but the >windows client has some conflict with 'synergy' which I also use to >share the keyboard/mouse with an adjacent laptop so I haven't switched >yet. Starting from a text login, what's the "startx" equivalent to start MATE? I see /bin/startx (starts gnome3) /bin/startxfce4 (starts xfce4) Thanks for your help David