Ok Carsten, Thanks for the clear answer! AFAIK, x2go and NX simply don't support hardware accelerated desktops. I am not aware of any other similar technology that does. So that basically means I'll install lxde or xfce for remote desktop needs.
Brgds On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote: > On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 12:42:49 +0200 Rogier Eggers <rogieregg...@gmail.com> > said: > > > Hello All, > > > > Recently I upgraded to enlightenment 0.18.3 on Ubuntu. I found that I > > cannot use enlightenment anymore using a remote desktop connection. The > > protocols that I used sucessfully are nx and x2go. > > > > I noted that, apparently starting with 0.18 compositing is switched on by > > default, which is probably the reason that it doesn't work. Could that be > > correct? I can still use nx / x2go for xfce4 without problems. In e18 If > > find that in the settings I can check "Disable composite effects". I > tried > > this, but still cannot login using nx /x2go. > > > > Is there anything else I can go? Is it going to work at all? > > > > Thanks for any tips. > > e18 on we are compositing only. no choice to turn it off. many reasons for > this, but suffice to say it's not a decidion that is being changed or > reversed. > it's partly to fix things that couldnt be fixed without always > compositing, to > provide a guarantee of compositing (so we can do things and not have to > have > ugly looking fallbacks like shaped windows), but most of all, so we can > move to > wayland. without making compositing core, this would be effectively a > no-go. > > so basically if you use an x sevrer that doesn't support compositing (like > nx - > i dont know x2go), then you are basically in trouble. complain to your nx > vendor that this doesn't work. :) > > > Regards, > > > > Rogier > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Slashdot TV. > > Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. > > http://tv.slashdot.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > > enlightenment-users mailing list > > enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > > > > > -- > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- > The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
