Subject: Bug#591: [X2Go-Dev] Bug#591: Works under certain configurations, not others

From: Michael DePaulo <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 07:41:00 -0400

Hi Mike#1,

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 5:08 AM, Mike Gabriel
<[email-masked]> wrote:
> Hi Michael, hi Tristan,
>
> On  So 07 Sep 2014 16:46:07 CEST, Michael DePaulo wrote:
>
>> 1. I was *able* to reproduce this bug under X2Go Client for Windows.
>> To be perfectly clear, it only happens when you are launching a remote
>> application ("Single Application" or "Published Application"), not
>> when you are launching a KDE session.
>
>
> Actually, this can be blamed on the way how X11 integrates with MS Windows.
>
> We would need an app that docks into the Windows system tray and proxies
> system tray icons coming in from applications running in VcXsrv/X11.
>
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/systemtray-spec/systemtray-spec-0.2.html#docking
>
> So you would need an app that is standing with one leg in X11, providing the
> system-tray-provider specs as defined by freedesktop.org and standing in MS
> Windows with the other leg, proxying the incoming X11 systray icons/menus to
> the Windows system tray.
>
> Never heard of something like this to exist, actually.
>
> Any ideas???
>
> Mike
[...]

Can you explain why it works under test case 3 (X11 forwarding from an
Ubuntu client) but not under test case 4 (X2Go from an Ubuntu client)?

That would certainly give us a clue.

-Mike#2