Having Trouble Connecting to NTG Lab with X2GO
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@scottalanmiller said in Having Trouble Connecting to NTG Lab with X2GO:
You can test with normal SSH (PuTTY or a Terminal Emulator) too, less to go wrong in that case as it is nothing but SSH and Bash, no graphical desktop issues layered on top.
That worked so that rules out network. I guess the issue is with X2Go
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Are you opening a full desktop or a single application?
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@scottalanmiller said in Having Trouble Connecting to NTG Lab with X2GO:
Are you opening a full desktop or a single application?
I have never connected this way before so I am sure it is user error. I am used to connecting via SSH with no GUI. I sent you my configuration which could likely be wrong.
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We figured it out. He was trying to launch KDE instead of LXDE.
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@scottalanmiller said in Having Trouble Connecting to NTG Lab with X2GO:
We figured it out. He was trying to launch KDE instead of LXDE.
That would be fun to use over a WAN connection.
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@stacksofplates said in Having Trouble Connecting to NTG Lab with X2GO:
@scottalanmiller said in Having Trouble Connecting to NTG Lab with X2GO:
We figured it out. He was trying to launch KDE instead of LXDE.
That would be fun to use over a WAN connection.
Mostly we just launch Firefox sessions, not full desktops, so works decently well.
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@scottalanmiller said in Having Trouble Connecting to NTG Lab with X2GO:
@stacksofplates said in Having Trouble Connecting to NTG Lab with X2GO:
@scottalanmiller said in Having Trouble Connecting to NTG Lab with X2GO:
We figured it out. He was trying to launch KDE instead of LXDE.
That would be fun to use over a WAN connection.
Mostly we just launch Firefox sessions, not full desktops, so works decently well.
Well I meant a full KDE environment like what it was trying to load. I've used Gnome 3 with nomachine and it's slow enough. I wonder what full KDE would be like.
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LXDE, XFE, Mate or any of the other desktop systems that don't have to deal with hardware rendering should work relatively well.
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@dafyre said in Having Trouble Connecting to NTG Lab with X2GO:
LXDE, XFE, Mate or any of the other desktop systems that don't have to deal with hardware rendering should work relatively well.
Ya those work really well. XFCE is fast, just annoying to use so I don't really use it.
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I always read about people saying how beautiful and awesome e17 is. I tried it last night. It's hideous. It looks like someone took every compiz animation and drug it through garbage.
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@stacksofplates said in Having Trouble Connecting to NTG Lab with X2GO:
I always read about people saying how beautiful and awesome e17 is. I tried it last night. It's hideous. It looks like someone took every compiz animation and drug it through garbage.
I thought it was great until I got serious with using it... it hated my NVIDIA card and would crash at random intervals... I switched back to Mate, lol.
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@dafyre said in Having Trouble Connecting to NTG Lab with X2GO:
@stacksofplates said in Having Trouble Connecting to NTG Lab with X2GO:
I always read about people saying how beautiful and awesome e17 is. I tried it last night. It's hideous. It looks like someone took every compiz animation and drug it through garbage.
I thought it was great until I got serious with using it... it hated my NVIDIA card and would crash at random intervals... I switched back to Mate, lol.
I really want to try i3. I think it would make me more productive.
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@stacksofplates said in Having Trouble Connecting to NTG Lab with X2GO:
@dafyre said in Having Trouble Connecting to NTG Lab with X2GO:
@stacksofplates said in Having Trouble Connecting to NTG Lab with X2GO:
I always read about people saying how beautiful and awesome e17 is. I tried it last night. It's hideous. It looks like someone took every compiz animation and drug it through garbage.
I thought it was great until I got serious with using it... it hated my NVIDIA card and would crash at random intervals... I switched back to Mate, lol.
I really want to try i3. I think it would make me more productive.
Buddy of mine at work uses it. He loves it.
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I don't even know what i3 is. Anyone got some screen shots.
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It's a tiling window manager, so you can split windows like with tmux or screen.
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I installed i3 in a chroot on my Chromebook. I'm really digging it. I can use keyboard shortcuts for everything except for stuff that needs GUI interaction like firefox, shotwell, etc.
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@scottalanmiller said in Having Trouble Connecting to NTG Lab with X2GO:
We figured it out. He was trying to launch KDE instead of LXDE.
I have LM 17.2 running on an old Dell Optiplex 330,.. I use X2Go to connect to it locally (20feet) and use that desktop as a media player for Pandora (Pithos).
I have to use X2go in Connect to local Desktop mode.
LXDE crashes.. but - different setup.
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@stacksofplates said in Having Trouble Connecting to NTG Lab with X2GO:
@dafyre said in Having Trouble Connecting to NTG Lab with X2GO:
LXDE, XFE, Mate or any of the other desktop systems that don't have to deal with hardware rendering should work relatively well.
Ya those work really well. XFCE is fast, just annoying to use so I don't really use it.
XFCE/LXDE are my go-to desktop environments when I decide I want one. I've got the Linux computers around here running KDE because it's what everyone said they liked when I showed them different desktop options. I really like standard desktop environments in Linux. I can move people between Fedora, Mint, Debian, etc, and because they all have KDE, the user settings are all the same. Mount /home and go.
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I used to use XFCE a lot, but the interface is just too lean for me. LXDE for me now when I need something lean and Cinnamon when I want a full desktop replacement. I find KDE just enough confusing and too "heavy" to learn to bother.
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@scottalanmiller said in Having Trouble Connecting to NTG Lab with X2GO:
I used to use XFCE a lot, but the interface is just too lean for me. LXDE for me now when I need something lean and Cinnamon when I want a full desktop replacement. I find KDE just enough confusing and too "heavy" to learn to bother.
Yeah, KDE isn't my favorite, but everyone here was able to use it without having to retrain them, so it's what we went with. I was very glad I stuck to the "universal" desktop environments when making recommendations tho, makes life so much easier.
