[ThinLinc-technical] ThinLinc 4.12.1 Beta

[Jonathan Buzzard]

On 23/03/2021 18:55, Stefan Posse wrote:

> I tested GNOME and Ubuntu Desktop, but I can see only a central section 
> of the desktop and none of the menus are available. I played with the 
> display settings in the client, but could not resolve this issue. Do you 
> have a suggestion how to fix this?
> 

The problem with "modern" KDE and GNOME desktops is that they require 3D 
accelerated graphics to function. They are unsuitable for use with 
ThinLinc in it's current form. It would require the VNC server to be 
tightly integrated with VirtualGL so OpenGL was transparently 
accelerated on a graphics card rather than needing to prefix it with a 
vglrun.

As such you can't really "fix" your issue.

The only reasonable workaround is to use a desktop environment that does 
not require OpenGL accelerated graphics for reasonable performance.

You could try GNOME Flashback which uses GNOME Panel and Metacity from 
GNOME 2.x

The main alternative to GNOME is probably MATE which we have been using 
for ~3 years now on RHEL/CentOS 7.

The other main Linux desktops that don't required OpenGL are Xfce and LXDE.


JAB.

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