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The default version of the /etc/x2go/x2gobroker.conf
configuration file can be viewed here.
It basically is used to do all global session broker configuration stuff. The file contains many and long comments, make sure you read everything thoroughly.
The file x2gobroker.conf
falls into a [global] section and several per-backend sections ([zeroconf], [inifile], etc.).
The tweakable options of x2gobroker.conf
that you might have to touch are:
check-credentials
)enable-plain-output
, enable-uccs-output
)For miscellaneous setups you may be interested in adapting the following options:
default-session-autologin
: broker sessions are authoritative, clicking on a session profile card will launch the session right away without a second username/password requestdefault-authorized-keys
: location of the server-side authorized_keys
file that is used by X2Go Session Broker to mediate session autologindefault-agent-query-mode
: mode for querying X2Go Session Broker Agent, can be either LOCAL
or SSH
Available backend sections are: zeroconf
, inifile
.
The zeroconf
backend is a test backend that works out of the box and provides a session profile that will give an X2Go login to localhost
.
With a default installation of x2gobroker-daemon
the command to launch X2Go Client in broker mode then is:
$ x2goclient --broker-url=http://localhost:8080/plain/zeroconf/
In /etc/x2go/x2gobroker.conf
the only option you can tweak is the desktop-shell
option. Its default is set to KDE
.
The inifile
backend is a broker backend that can be text file based