On Thu, 2012-02-02 at 11:56 +0100, Oleksandr Shneyder wrote: > Hello X2Go users, > > I want to describe some changes we made in X2Go recently. > > == Multi display support features. == > There are two new features in X2Go to support desktops with more then > one physical display. > > 1. Run X2Go Session in "full screen" mode on one of several physical > displays. > With this feature you can use one of your physical monitors to display > X2Go session in "full screen" mode. > On this photo you can see a Windows 7 notebook with a connected VGA > monitor running X2Go Session on display 2: > http://www.x2go.org/_media/news:two_sess.png > > You can configure this feature using Session Preferences dialog in X2Go > client: > http://www.x2go.org/_media/news:multidisp_set.png > > Push "Identify all displays" button to find out the numbers of a > physical displays: > http://www.x2go.org/_media/news:ident_dsip.png > > 2. Using two or more physical displays as one large virtual display > (Xinerama) > The advantage of Xinerama feature is to only maximize windows to the > dimensions of the active physical display. This can be very useful not > only for thinclients with more then one physical displays, but also if > user stretch their X2Go sessions over more then one display in "window" > mode. > > X2Go Session running 3 maximized LibreOffice windows is stretched over 3 > physical displays: > http://www.x2go.org/_media/news:xinerama.png > > Xinerama configuration of X2Go session will be automatically updated > every time when user moving or resizing his X2Go Session window. > > ==Verifying if port is free before resuming X2Go Session == > > On start of an X2Go session 3 tcp ports for ssh tunnels (graphic, sound, > sshfs) are reserved. The values of these ports are stored in the X2Go > session database and used by X2Go clients every time an X2Go session > gets resumed. Sometimes it can happen that one of these ports is already > used by another application after the session had been suspended. As > result, X2Go client will be unable to resume such session or start sound > or sshfs tunnel. To avoid this problem X2Go server (>= 3.1.0.0) will > verify if these ports are still unused before the session will be > resumed. In other case new ports will be reserved. The new port values > will be updated in database and sent to the X2Go client. > > IMPORTANT: Older versions of X2Go client will be compatible with newest > X2Go servers. If ports have changed between suspend and resume of a > session, older x2goclients will try to reconnect and fail. But on the > next attempt, X2Go client will retrieve the updated port values from the > X2Go session database. <snip> Very much appreciated. Thank you - John
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