At 09:33 PM 11/16/2014, you wrote: >On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 9:59 PM, david <david at daku.org> wrote: > > > > I'm looking for a way to access a GUI desktop on a Centos 7 server from a > > Windows client. I have tried: > > - X2go from EPEL (fails immediately, apparently they are working on a > > solution, but...) > >X2go works, just not with Gnome3. Use KDE or MATE from epel. Also, >there was a bug in a recent x2goserver package that would fail if you >didn't have the x2goserver-xsession package installed. The fix for >that was done but I don't know if it ever got out of epel-testing. > >-- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com 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. On the server, I see in /var/log/messages, a sequence such as: ------------------------ Nov 17 08:58:07 goat systemd: Created slice user-1000.slice. Nov 17 08:58:07 goat systemd: Starting Session 4 of user UUUUU. Nov 17 08:58:07 goat systemd: Started Session 4 of user UUUUU. Nov 17 08:58:07 goat systemd-logind: New session 4 of user UUUUU. Nov 17 08:58:11 goat /usr/bin/x2gostartagent: successfully started X2Go agent session with ID UUUUU-50-1416243489_stDMATE _dp32 Nov 17 08:58:15 goat kernel: fuse init (API version 7.22) Nov 17 08:58:15 goat systemd: Mounting FUSE Control File System... Nov 17 08:58:15 goat systemd: Mounted FUSE Control File System. Nov 17 08:58:15 goat /usr/bin/x2gosetkeyboard: Setting X keyboard according to /home/UUUUU/.x2go/C-UUUUU-50-1416243489_stD MATE_dp32/keyboard Nov 17 08:58:16 goat /usr/bin/x2goruncommand: launching session with Xsession-x2go mechanism, using STARTUP="mate-sessio n" Nov 17 08:58:16 goat /usr/bin/x2gomountdirs[3210]: successfully mounted VVVVV at 127.0.0.1:30005/cygdrive/C/Users/VVVVV/X2GO~ 1/S-743F~1/spool to /tmp/.x2go-UUUUU/spool/C-UUUUU-50-1416243489_stDMATE_dp32 Nov 17 08:58:18 goat /usr/bin/x2goumount-session[3574]: successfully unmounted "/tmp/.x2go-UUUUU/spool/C-UUUUU-50-14162434 89_stDMATE_dp32" Nov 17 08:58:28 goat systemd-logind: Removed session 4. ------------------------- In the above, UUUUU is the user name on Centos 7, and VVVVV is the name on Windows, as evidenced by the reference to 'cygdrive'. --- 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). David