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| After starting the application and some searching, you will find a new icon on your panel. On the top the icon it's blue, and under it is white with a red cross in it. When you right-click on the butten you can activate the desktop sharing there. After activating other people who can login, can access your desktop. | After starting the application and some searching, you will find a new icon on your panel. On the top the icon it's blue, and under it is white with a red cross in it. When you right-click on the butten you can activate the desktop sharing there. After activating other people who can login, can access your desktop. | ||
| - | ==== The Client Side ==== | + | ==== Client Side ==== |
| + | To connect to another user's desktop, use [[wiki: | ||
| - | On the client | + | * Start the client. |
| - | < | + | Preparing the session: |
| - | aptitude install x2goclient | + | * Create a new session with " |
| - | </ | + | * Assign a session name. |
| + | * As 'host name' give the name of the machine, the session you want to connect to, is running on. | ||
| + | * As 'user name' give your account on the remote machine. | ||
| + | * As ' | ||
| + | * Recommended: | ||
| + | * Press ' | ||
| - | Start it and make a new session with " | + | Making the connection: |
| + | * Activate the newly created session. | ||
| + | * Enter the password of your remote account, | ||
| + | * You'll be presented | ||
| - | Give it a session name, a host name, and the username from the user you want to access. In " | + | After this you will login on the desktop of the other user. When your monitor is smaller than the other ones, it might be a bit difficult |
| - | Then start the session | + | Be aware, that by selecting ' |
| - | After this you will login on the desktop from the other. When you have a monitor what's smaller then the other side, it will be maybe a bit difficult to read. | + | ==== Misc notes (needs to be rewritten) ==== |
| - | + | ||
| - | Realize that when you want to stop the session and the other is running a normal PC, you will stop the complete PC when you do a shutdown! | + | |
| + | * if you use x2godesktopsharing on :0 then you can connect to it through x2goclient with the session profile... | ||
| + | * session type ,,Connect to local desktop'' | ||
| + | * however, there is a not-a-real-bug in x2godesktopsharing. User foo on :0 can connect to the desktop through x2goclient as user foo without x2godesktopsharing doing much, asair. | ||
| + | * user bar can access user foo on :0 if user foo grants access for user bar through x2godesktopsharing. | ||
| + | * however, in x2goclient there is a hard-coded restriction that only allows view-only access to user bar... | ||
| + | * in pyhoca-cli, desktop sharing is already implemented (pyhoca-cli is a cmdline X2Go client) | ||
| + | * and with pyhoca-cli you can choose --share-mode 0 or --share-mode 1 (where 0 is view-only and 1 is full access) | ||
| + | * x2godesktopsharing basically does not care if it runs on :0 or :50 (normally the display number for the first X2Go session on the machine) | ||
| + | FIXME This section needs to be rewritten. For now it's just a copy & paste from an IRC discussion | ||
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