[CentOS] Remote Desktop Recommendations (2)

[david]

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