Re: [X2Go-Dev] Bug#338: gnome no longer working in Ubuntu 13.10

2013-11-14 Thread brian mullan
With Ubuntu 13.10... *gnome-session-fallback * has been replaced with: *gnome-session-flashback* Gnome Flashback is a session for Gnome 3 which was initially called "Gnome Fallback", and shipped as a stand-alone session in Debian and Ubuntu. It provides a similar user experience to the Gnome 2

Re: [X2Go-Dev] x2go & ubuntu 12.10 ... now that there is no Unity-2d

2012-11-25 Thread brian mullan
Helmer... I just started virt-manager and checked "details" for one of my KVM vm's and if you select "Video" then click on the drop-down menu for "options" you will see QXL present as one of the video support options for the VMs. Brian On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Helmer Teles wrote: > On

[X2Go-Dev] x2go & ubuntu 12.10 ... now that there is no Unity-2d

2012-11-24 Thread brian mullan
I just tried installing x2goserver, x2goserver-xsession on a new Ubuntu 12.10 machine. Trying to connect with my x2goclient I got an error Failed to load session "gnome-fallback" I guess I had thought that the entry in x2go client for "Unity" meant that actual support for full Unity (not just Un

[X2Go-Dev] UNITY/GNOME binaries in Ubuntu

2012-04-30 Thread brian mullan
Mike In at least Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 there is a package that you need to install that will automatically fallback to Unity 2d if needed. http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/gnome-session-fallback you install it using the following command:* * *$ sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback* O

Re: [X2Go-Dev] freerdp in x2go session fails -- saw Olexander's previous email about applying a patch???

2012-04-26 Thread brian mullan
ignore previous email !!!... I re-read this and it appears the patch was actually meant for the freerdp developers On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:29 PM, brian mullan wrote: > > I just setup freerdp in Ubuntu 12.04 and the above problem still exists. I > am using the latest x2goclient/x

[X2Go-Dev] Fwd: freerdp in x2go session fails -- saw Olexander's 2 mo. old email about applying a patch???

2012-04-26 Thread brian mullan
I am trying to use a FreeRDP remoteapp session inside of an x2go session. I x2goclient into remote ubuntu 12.04 server. On that ubuntu server I try to execute a Window's 2008 server's RemoteApp's that I have setup using a .sh script I built output displayed is: * * *$ ./run-remoteapp.sh loading p

[X2Go-Dev] x2goplugin crash

2012-04-26 Thread brian mullan
Vasilica... You didn't say whether an actual x2gocllient (not the plugin) works ok or not? Can you connect to the x2goserver with the x2goclient? -- Forwarded message -- From: Vasilica Petcu To: x2go-dev@lists.berlios.de Cc: Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:24:57 +0100 Subject: [X2Go-

[X2Go-Dev] RDP services

2012-03-11 Thread brian mullan
John Have you tried the new FreeRDP client yet? I've not done any extensive testing but it does now support both Microsoft's RemoteFX & RemoteApp services. Its an Apache license app and v1.0 was released and demo'd at the Ubuntu Developer conference in Nov 2011

[X2Go-Dev] connection fails with - Access denied. Authentication that can continue: publickey, keyboard-interactive

2012-02-15 Thread brian mullan
Using Ubuntu 11.10 64bit for x2goserver Installed everything as usual >From my client (also Ubuntu 11.10 64 bit)... I try to connect and get the message about accepting a server connection not seen before and I answer - yes. I then get the x2goclient window to provide my password and I do so. I

Re: [X2go-Dev] [X2go-User] libjpeg-turbo use with X2GO

2012-01-25 Thread brian mullan
I had been using libjpeg-turbo with x2go for well over a year now. Initially I just replaced libjpeg with it by installing manually then creating a softlink but as far as I know libjpeg-turbo replaced libjpeg in Ubuntu a couple releases ago and *I believe is now the default. * https://blueprints.l

[X2go-Dev] re x2go plugin for Remmina

2011-12-18 Thread brian mullan
I had used Remmina extensively before I found out about x2go. Its a very nice application. The Remmina developers are now implementing the new freerdp 1.0 release into Remmina which will let Windows 2008r2 server applications that are configured for RemoteAPPs to be run individually in an x-wind

[X2go-Dev] Some interesting developments/announcements from the FreeRDP project

2011-07-13 Thread brian mullan
Again, I'm not a developer but this information may prove useful to x2go development. Brian * First, a completed implementation of an open source RemoteFX Codec for client and server has been announced see message below from Vic Lee. For those not familiar with RemoteFX you can read about it

[X2go-Dev] pyhoca/x2go, ubuntu 10.10, Android Tablet -- status update

2011-07-09 Thread brian mullan
I've gotten to where I can launch pyhoca-gui on Ubuntu 10.10 which is running in a chroot environment with Android v2.34 on the $249 Nook Color Tablet I get to the point of a successful connection but then pyhoca-gui dies while logging me in. This log captures first attempt where I forgot to chan

Re: [X2go-Dev] x2go and android tablets - some progress

2011-07-01 Thread brian mullan
not tried Ubuntu 11.04 yet (I will soon) .. its my understanding of Ubuntu Unity that the OpenGL 2.0 support should enable the full Unity capabilities without having to drop back to what Canonical is calling Unity-2D (or the classical desktop --- re gnome 2). Brian On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 6:24 AM, b

Re: [X2go-Dev] x2go and android tablets - some progress

2011-07-01 Thread brian mullan
Android ARM system's request is somehow recognized as needing ARM repository packages... I'm not smart enough in that area to know how that occurs On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 6:24 AM, brian mullan wrote: > I didn't mention it but if you read the Canonical engineer's blo

Re: [X2go-Dev] x2go and android tablets - some progress

2011-07-01 Thread brian mullan
h seems to work really well so far on my 11.04 systems) will be a really good UI for tablets and finger oriented multi-touch screens. So Ubuntu 11.10 could become very interesting on Tablets. Brian On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 6:10 AM, brian mullan wrote: > Mike et al > > If you were referrin

Re: [X2go-Dev] x2go and android tablets - some progress

2011-07-01 Thread brian mullan
mike.gabr...@das-netzwerkteam.de> wrote: > Hi Brian, > > > On Fr 01 Jul 2011 03:18:47 CEST brian mullan wrote: > > Then I installed Ubuntu 10.10 successfully on it. First with the LXDI >> but >> later switched it to Gnome (just because I'm more at home with G

Re: [X2go-Dev] x2go and android tablets - some progress

2011-07-01 Thread brian mullan
d by *both* canonical and 3rd party app developers as a build system to create the ARM packages of their software. Brian On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:20 AM, Mike Gabriel < mike.gabr...@das-netzwerkteam.de> wrote: > Hi Brian, > > > On Fr 01 Jul 2011 03:18:47 CEST brian mullan

[X2go-dev] Can x2go make use of Google's Open Sourcing announcement for WebRTC

2011-06-02 Thread brian mullan
I read about this today and and although not a developer I wondered if this could possibly be another means to migrate from the NX libraries ? It is for real time communications? http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Google-open-source-WebRTC-for-open-video-audio-chat-1253848.html *"Google's W

Re: [X2go-dev] X2go-dev Digest, Vol 28, Issue 24

2011-04-21 Thread brian mullan
Since this had been a "future" development discussion a while back (re possible use of HTML5 in x2go) I thought I'd pass this on. Just stumbled on this announcement of noVNC (LGPL3) and saw they now implement HTML 5 (websockets and canvas) http://kanaka.github.com/noVNC/ their source is on Githu

[X2go-dev] libjpeg-turbo

2011-04-06 Thread brian mullan
Mike I've been using libjpeg-turbo for months now on both ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 (x2go clients & servers). I put it on both client machine & on server assuming it would benefit jpeg cpu utilization and although I don't have the info handy now I thought I'd sent out a couple screen shots of cpu ut

Re: [X2go-dev] x2go on Android ?

2011-03-11 Thread brian mullan
I think Tablets are going to be a huge opportunity for x2go. Unless the tablet allows some linux to be installed on it to replace Android -or- comes with linux the ability to run an xserver & x2go will be a good Plan B ___ X2go-dev mailing list X2go-dev@l

Re: [X2go-dev] PyHoca and the web

2011-03-02 Thread brian mullan
John I tried Spice on Ubuntu and it does work pretty well and it is under heavy development but the rub for me was that it required a separate vm for each user's remote desktop. So I didn't see any way to use it on a server that is itself virtualized in a cloud as I don't think there is anything

Re: [X2go-dev] PyHoca and the web

2011-03-02 Thread brian mullan
Jo-Erlend Kristian Høgsberg (krh), a software engineer who works on the Linux graphics stack, started Wayland as a Red Hat project in 2008, while also working for Red Hat on X. Anyway, I wasn't thinking of a browser as the 'only' client but it could become more useful in the future with tablets

Re: [X2go-dev] PyHoca and the web

2011-03-02 Thread brian mullan
Well I just posted the previous and up popped a site with the source and binaries for a Remote Desktop that is built on AJAX, JSON and HTML5. It is also listed as GPL3. URL: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/IP/ThinVnc2.aspx With Wayland in the future in several distro's (Red Hat and Ubuntu & deriva

Re: [X2go-dev] PyHoca and the web

2011-03-02 Thread brian mullan
This thread reminded me of I've been wondering about since I read of HTML 5's new video/multimedia capabilities... so I did a search and this article describes ThinVNC use of HTML 5's capability to provide remote desktop via a browser. http://www.supportsmith.com/ThinVNC/HTML5-VNC.aspx I'm going

[X2go-dev] wayland remote desktop comment by

2011-02-03 Thread brian mullan
Per Wayland FAQ: Is Wayland network transparent / does it support remote rendering? No, that is outside the scope of Wayland. To support remote rendering you need to define a rendering API, which is something I've been very careful to avoid

[X2go-dev] NoMachine's licensing

2011-02-02 Thread brian mullan
I asked nomachine and here is their actual license. As I'd suspected the GPL components that they use NoMachine points out were GPL already and nearly 80% of the overall NX project. Given that I'm not sure they can copyright those modules as they were based on other GPL projects... see URL: http:

Re: [X2go-dev] [Pkg-x2go-devel] Getting things started with x2goclient

2011-02-01 Thread brian mullan
I think all of the comments are good points regarding NoMachine's going closed source but I believe that precedence is that if you have historically provided the code under GPL you have already given those that use that software the perpetual right to continue using... just don't expect the origina

[X2go-dev] re Project Management

2011-01-27 Thread brian mullan
Since there is a discussion on this topic... *Launchpad * would seem to be a reasonable fit for hosting the x2go project as there are over 20,000 projects hosted on Launchpad already? Launchpad provides: - *Bug tracking* - *Code hosting*

[X2go-dev] x2go not working on ubuntu 10.10

2011-01-24 Thread brian mullan
As mentioened in a separate email I have EC2 Ubuntu 10.10 servers running x2go and they work fine. I also provided you my phone number. I'm not sure what you are doing wrong or are not doing but what you are trying to do is fairly easy. Send me an email with the AMI # you are using for the EC2 im

[X2go-dev] Fwd: X2go-dev Digest, Vol 25, Issue 20

2011-01-21 Thread brian mullan
Ok VNC's working so you know there is a desktop capability on the server. But VNC's not using either the FreeNX, NoMachine NX or x2go "server". And I don't think you can use the x2go client to try to connect to either a FreeNX or NoMachine NX server so if you were trying to connect to them. What

[X2go-dev] x2go not working on ubuntu 10.10?

2011-01-21 Thread brian mullan
-- Forwarded message -- From: Date: Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:29 AM Subject: X2go-dev Digest, Vol 25, Issue 19 To: x2go-dev@lists.berlios.de Send X2go-dev mailing list submissions to x2go-dev@lists.berlios.de Note sure what you are doing but I've got quite a few ubuntu 10.10

[X2go-dev] restored pc but x2go is broken

2011-01-13 Thread brian mullan
I had to restore an linux machine (ubuntu) from backup.However, after the restore x2go is no longer working correctly. Using the x2goclient I try to log into an x2go server machine but the response is almost immediately a message "Finished" and the x2go client session window reappears with the

[X2go-dev] Hardware requirements

2011-01-06 Thread brian mullan
Joakim If you haven't read this yet off of the old x2go website you might want to read about how Linux4Afrika Projectconfigured their x2go servers. That web site and information is a bit "dated" but it can give you some ideas. One thing ca

Re: [X2go-dev] PyHoca-GUI (graphical Python X2go client) ready for testing,

2010-12-10 Thread brian mullan
Eli ... -- *store your work on launchpad! *use the native client feature of chrome to have a webclient without needed of programming a plugin (it is easy and will run even on android phones) *authenticate user with web2.0 sites like passport, openID or fbook *stop talkin

[X2go-dev] Ubuntu, X, and Wayland

2010-11-07 Thread brian mullan
e-ID: <4cd570b9.6060...@verizon.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On 11/06/2010 08:44 AM, brian mullan wrote: > The Wayland FreeDesktop.org site > <http://wayland.freedesktop.org/architecture.html> > > gives a good description of how Way

[X2go-dev] How Wayland will handle X client & server

2010-11-06 Thread brian mullan
The Wayland FreeDesktop.org site gives a good description of how Wayland will work and how it is supposed to support legacy X client/server transparently. ___ X2go-dev mailing list X2go-dev@lists.berlios.

[X2go-dev] Mark Shuttleworth announces Ubuntu to move to OpenGL based Wayland

2010-11-05 Thread brian mullan
Ubuntu to start moving off X-Windowand to OpenGL based Wayland . At least this will remove any xming problem on the clients eventually I'm sure as usual, people will have the choice to us

[X2go-dev] Disappearing Mouse on Windows 7

2010-10-31 Thread brian mullan
I've not seen this problem yet but I don't use my Windows 7 x2go client as much as my linux client. Just to not overlook the obvious... maybe this is a Windows 7 problem? I thought to go search for reported problems with Windows 7 and found the following: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forum

[X2go-dev] open source Java based x-server for windows

2010-10-27 Thread brian mullan
They could have chosen a better name but here's the description. But it too sounds like it would need work because it mentions "WeirdX supports core protocols of X11R6.3 partially." Open Source - WeirdX written in Java - WeirdX handles x protocols directly.

[X2go-dev] xming and x2go

2010-10-27 Thread brian mullan
Heinz & Gerry It would seem logical that an open-xming project would be needed by more than just x2go community. There must be others depending on that code that could be enjoined to help update the existing xming open source ? * Brian To: x2go-...@lists.berlios.de* * Subject: Re: [X2g

[X2go-dev] The vanishing mouse - xming source code

2010-10-08 Thread brian mullan
xming v 6.9 source is on SourceForge here -- > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 09:37:10 -0400 > From: Gerry Reno > To: x2go-dev@lists.berlios.de > Subject: Re:

Re: [X2go-dev] X2go-dev Digest, Vol 21, Issue 36

2010-10-02 Thread brian mullan
for compression. But it seems to me that WebP could be implemented and as it is reported to be 40% more efficient than JPEG... less bytes means less network traffic and usually better/faster performance. Brian Mullan ___

[X2go-dev] BKO and USB over IP

2010-09-23 Thread brian mullan
Speaking of Thin Clients... Although this is not directly related to the Thin Client thread it is something I was impressed with. Boot Kernel Organization (BKO) BKO is based on a REALLY SMALL linux ... about 1 Megabyte. It can be installed onto just 1 small partition

Re: [X2go-dev] X2go-dev Digest, Vol 21, Issue 23

2010-09-23 Thread brian mullan
I've tried nearly all of the leading remote desktop technologies that I could find. Remote Video is hard to improve on any of them without taking a different approach that frame buffer forwarding. So NoMachine's NX, Citrix's remote desktop technology etc all are limited by bandwidth constraints o

Re: [X2go-dev] X2go-dev Digest, Vol 21, Issue 20

2010-09-22 Thread brian mullan
ound it: Even if they were called Barrack > Obama and Bill Gates, they would need to fullfill the requirements of > the license. > > It is sad that lots of people try to find weird reasons why these two > guys don't have to follow the same laws and duties as everybody else > do

Re: [X2go-dev] X2go-dev Digest, Vol 21, Issue 18

2010-09-22 Thread brian mullan
their day jobs ... oh, and while building the new x2go wiki etc. Now that they are in what is hoped to be the final stages and frankly I'd rather they focus on that and worry about where to post the source code when they have some breathing space. Give them a break is my

Re: [X2go-dev] X2go-dev Digest, Vol 20, Issue 12

2010-08-22 Thread brian mullan
If its just the size of the file that's a problem can you possibly just quota the log file's size? Manage Log File size on Ubuntuis one writeup which gives a lot of detail on how to use LogRotate. I think this is the

Re: [X2go-dev] X2go-dev Digest, Vol 20, Issue 11

2010-08-19 Thread brian mullan
If its just the size of the file that's a problem can you possibly just quota the log file's size? Manage Log File size on Ubuntuis one writeup which gives a lot of detail on how to use LogRotate. I think this is the

Re: [X2go-dev] X2go-dev Digest, Vol 18, Issue 7

2010-06-07 Thread brian mullan
I've tried most of the remote desktop solutions out there. NoMachine's NX, NX/FreeNX, Citrix ICA, etc. They *all* suffer from less than perfect video over the net. Its a combination of bandwidth and cpu horsepower either of which can induce delay/jitter. Audio won't be as noticable as video

Re: [X2go-dev] X2go-dev Digest, Vol 17, Issue 14

2010-05-24 Thread brian mullan
C2 it will reattach it to the original instance/machine.Read about it hear on How to setup a Load Balancer with Sticky Sessions<http://www.shlomoswidler.com/2010/04/elastic-load-balancing-with-sticky-sessions.html>. Jeff Barr is the author and works for AWS. Brian Mullan On Mon, May 24,

Re: [X2go-dev] Ubuntu 9.10 and Kcontrol module

2010-04-02 Thread brian mullan
Paul van der Vlis writes: > > > Cyril Vergne schreef: > > But there is a big problem about x2go on Ubuntu : No > > administration console. > > I am not sure what you exactly need. I don't use the administration > module. You can live without it Paul I think what the person was referring to

Re: [X2go-dev] SSH Key issues

2010-03-25 Thread brian mullan
John A. Sullivan III writes: > > Hello, all. We recently recreated an X2Go Server and found we had > serious ssh key issues when we tried to connect from the previously > existing X2Go clients. We're still working these through so I'll list > them in the order we find them. > > The GUI key po

[X2go-dev] x2go Web client is needed

2010-01-09 Thread brian mullan
The effort of supporting on 3 different installable clients for Mac, Linux, Windows would seem *lessened* if there was just a single Web client (java/php) for x2go. It would also open x2go's server side capabilities to many more potential users. ___ X2go