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Please make sure that you have added the X2Go repository appropriate for your system to your package management system. The required steps are described here:
The sources of this X2Go component are available as source tarball under this URL:
Windows binaries can be retrieved from:
MacOS X binaries can be retrieved from:
The x2goclient
package will install x2goclient on your GNU/Linux system and will make sure, that every needed package will be installed as dependency.
$ aptitude install x2goclient
You can now start X2goClient by typing x2goclient
at the command-line or you'll find it inside the “Internet” section of your menu inside your graphical desktop environment.
There are currently no Fedora packages for X2Go, but there are packages for Mandriva. For this installation all packages were downloaded from http://www.pbone.net.
wget ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/ftp.mandrivauser.de/rpm/GPL/2010.1/i586/release/x2goclient-3.01-3mud2010.1.i586.rpm wget ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/ftp.mandrivauser.de/rpm/GPL/2010.1/i586/release/x2goclient-cli-3.0.1-3mud2010.1.noarch.rpm wget ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrakelinux/devel/cooker/i586/media/contrib/release/nxproxy-3.3.0-3mdv2010.1.i586.rpm wget ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrakelinux/devel/cooker/i586/media/contrib/release/libxcomp3-3.3.0-3mdv2010.1.i586.rpm wget ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrakelinux/devel/cooker/i586/media/main/release/libjpeg8-1.1.1-1-mdv2011.0.i586.rpm
sudo yum install nxproxy-3.3.0-3mdv2010.1.i586.rpm libxcomp3-3.3.0-3mdv2010.1.i586.rpm libjpeg8-1.1.1-1-mdv2011.0.i586.rpm perl perl-Proc-Simple perl-Term-ReadPassword qt qt-x11
sudo rpm -ivh --nodeps x2goclient-3.01-3mud2010.1.i586.rpm x2goclient-cli-3.0.1-3mud2010.1.noarch.rpm
Windows versions and recommended clients:
Operating System | Recommended client | Comment |
---|---|---|
Windows XP, 32- and 64-bit | 3.99.0.0 | Cut & Paste more reliable with vcxsrv than Xming |
Windows Server 2003, 32- and 64-bit | 3.99.0.0 | Cut & Paste more reliable with vcxsrv than Xming |
Windows Vista, 32- and 64-bit | 3.99.0.0 | (Not verified) |
Windows Server 2008, 32- and 64-bit | 3.99.0.0 | (Not verified) |
Windows 7, 32-bit | 3.99.0.0 | Cut & Paste more reliable with vcxsrv than Xming |
Windows 7/2008R2, 64-bit | 3.99.0.01) | 3.01-14 and later can't connect if Symantec Endpoint Protection is installed (even if disabled). |
The x2goclient
application is the client part of X2go. It should be installed on a client computer to access an X2go server running on another machine (Note: currently, localhost access between client and server, that is X2go client==server is not supported).
The x2goclient
application provides you the possibility to access the remote running desktop, exchange files with it and redirect sound from the session on the server to your local client. x2goclient
can be started via the Desktop Environment's application menu (section: Internet) or by using the command line in a shell (simply type x2goclient
there and hit enter).
Quite a few options are available from command line, some of them cannot be configured from within the GUI. For further information on command line options, please check the man page of x2goclient: man x2goclient.
After the installation of x2goclient
(Tarball, Debian, Ubuntu, MacOS, Windows) an application link can be found in the menu of your Desktop Environment. It will be integrated inside the topic “Internet” (Debian/Ubuntu).
X2Go follows the general keyboard shortcuts of the NX client. In particular: