Good evening,
currently, I am working on a x2go-session which freezes after a certain amount of time. Only new starting then will help. My home laptop is a Mac OS Mojave 10.14.6 and I am connecting on a linux. My colleagues (probably all linux users) solved the problem by disabling the screensaver (settings and so on...) but for me it is not working.
Does anybody have the same issue? Any idea or solutions? I need to "keep the window" active to keep my calculations going (from the x2go session I connect via ssh to another server; that connection will close if the window freezes)
Thanks in advance,
Elmo
On the server, in /etc/ssh/sshd_config try setting
TCPKeepAlive yes
ClientAliveInterval 30
I tried everything else I could find, screensaver settings, power options settings, etc. Nothing worked until I did this.
Disable the screensaver, or ssh into the machine and kill the active screensaver process.
Disabling screensaver on ubuntu 22.04 xfce4 didn't solve the problem.
Removing xfce4-screensaver did:
sudo apt-get remove xfce4-screensaver.
I also disabled display power management: Application > Settings > Power Manager > Display > Display power management
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Question:
How can I emulate pressing CTRL+ALT+PAUSE in my Linux VM using AutoKey?
I tried a script that has
keyboard.send_keys("<ctrl>+<alt>+<pause>")
in it. But it does not work.
Background:
I'm using Windows 10 and RDP to log into a Fedora Linux. Switching 100 times a day.
The RDP connection runs in Windows all the time.
If the RDP window is not in the background but active, I can press CTRL+ALT+PAUSE to go into the VM (Fullscreen). If I am inside the VM I can press CTRL+ALT+PAUSE to go back to Windows.
So far so good. I want only one button. Preferably PAUSE. Windows part is ready already with following script
Pause::
If !WinExist("RDP Tool Name")
MsgBox No Window found
WinShow, RDP Tool Name
WinActivate, RDP Tool Name
Send ^!{CtrlBreak}
Return
Is the Linux part maybe not possible because the key combination is cached somewhere before my Linux system can even notice it? Any ideas?
I solved it without any other new script. I just had to edit the RDP settings: Keyboard -> Use Windows-Hotkeys -> On this Computer
I have a couple of older printers (a Brother and an HP all-in-one) that I want to run as wireless and cloud-based printers. To do so, I bought a Raspberry Pi 2 and set it up as a headless print server following some online tutorials. Both of the printers are accessible wirelessly from my home network, but because my primary computer is a Chromebook and I use Android phones and tablets, the only good way I've found to print to them is using Google Cloud Print.
To do this, I downloaded Chromium onto the Raspberry Pi and signed in using my gmail account. This kind of worked for a few months, but the cloud connection would go down after a few days and I'd have to reboot the Raspberry Pi to get it back (there was probably a better way, but, since it was headless, it just seemed easier to reboot).
Eventually, I got tired of rebooting the Raspberry Pi and I read something on the Internet about upgrading my software to get new versions of the OS and of Chromium. Unfortunately, since doing so, I've been having problems.
Since I'm running headless, my primary means of connecting are via ssh and vnc connections from my Chromebook. ssh is fine, but I can't run Chromium on the Raspberry Pi via ssh (at one time, I found a tutorial on how to do this, but it has since been taken down and I think Google nixed the support for that somewhere along the line).
To start Chromium, I log with a vnc connection. When I log on the first time after a reboot (or after restarting the vnc server), everything works fine. I can use, for instance, the word processor or terminal available through the GUI. All is well. However, if I start Chromium, all of the sudden nothing will accept keyboard input. It is almost as if there is no keyboard connected at all at this point. Mouse input still works fine and I can open and close programs to my heart's content. Closing Chromium doesn't fix the problem. Closing the vnc connection from the client and logging back in doesn't fix the problem. Restarting the vnc server does fix it until I start Chromium again.
I say "almost" above because, even though pressing keys on the keyboard don't appear to do anything, the cursor (especially visible in the terminal window) does flicker with each key press as it would if I were typing actual text.
I've searched for this issue on Google, but my search has turned up very little. There were some lubuntu posts about possibly not using ibus, but, from what I can tell, that is not relevant to my situation. At least, I couldn't find anything ibus in ps and I couldn't find any options in the GUI preferences.
My Raspberry Pi is running what I believe is the latest version of Raspbian (I updated/upgraded again last night to be sure):
pi#raspberrypi:~ $ uname -a
Linux raspberrypi 4.4.21-v7+ #911 SMP Thu Sep 15 14:22:38 BST 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux
pi#raspberrypi:~ $ cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)"
NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="8"
VERSION="8 (jessie)"
ID=raspbian
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianForums"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianBugs"
It's running TightVNC with the following command-line options:
pi#raspberrypi:~ $ ps aux | grep vnc
pi 13537 0.0 2.2 91556 22584 ? S 01:05 0:27 Xtightvnc :1 -desktop X -auth /home/pi/.Xauthority -geometry 1368x768 -depth 24 -rfbwait 120000 -rfbauth /home/pi/.vnc/passwd -rfbport 5901 -fp /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/ -co /etc/X11/rgb
Chromium's chrome://help About section says "Version 51.0.2704.91 Built on Ubuntu 14.04, running on Raspbian 8.0".
Beyond that, I don't know what other software/versions would be relevant, but if anyone can think of anything else that would be helpful, I can update this description.
Through trial and error, I've discovered that the Chromium keyboard/RDP issue seems to be related to particular extensions on my profile.
To verify this, try running Chromium with --disable-extensions.
The particular extensions/apps I've found to be problematic are:
Google Play Music
Plex
As soon as I disable these, keyboard starts working again. Does this help?
I'm running the 4.4.38 version of Raspberry Pi 3, which is the newest, and the newest chromium-browser (v.51). Although I am using a mouse and screen, I'm getting keyboard error messages, and other messages, and browser is hanging in some cases. I pretty quickly see the following errors on console after starting chromium:
[2530:2530:0217/142822:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(334)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process
[75:75:0217/142957:ERROR:PlatformKeyboardEvent.cpp(117)] Not implemented reached in static PlatformEvent::Modifiers blink::PlatformKeyboardEvent::getCurrentModifierState()
After asking on the raspberrypi.org forum, it was suggested that I wait for the next version of Chromium. It looks pretty sure that there is an i/o error between mouse and keyboard controls and chromium, and appears quite similar to your issue.
(I do not have the necessary 50 points, so I cannot comment, only as a solution, which in this case is not true, since I also did not find it yet.)
I have the exact same problem with a Pi 3, but in my case when remotely connected with xrdp (w/ Windows Remote Desktop).
I believe the symptoms appeared after an update-upgrade session. My current version:
pi#raspberrypi:~ $ uname -a
Linux raspberrypi 4.4.38-v7+ #938 SMP Thu Dec 15 15:22:21 GMT 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux
I originally only wanted to change the keyboard-layout to German, and from what I understood until now is that through xrdp it is not possible, unless you define your keyboard layout completely manually, see:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=265100
http://cloclotron.net/xrdp_keyboard_layout_workaround.html
As soon as I open Chromium, I see the same behaviour as you, if I close it, everything is back to normal. If working on a directly connected monitor with kexboard plugged in, I experience no problems.
A really simple but dragged me many days that I cannot figure out how:
I've setup synergy on my Mac as a client, using Ubuntu as the server.
But now I wanted to switch to use Mac as server and Ubuntu as client.
The question now I'm facing is that synergy settings page never show up, each time I try to open it, it just appears in less than 0.1 second, then it disappeared.
Because I've set it up already and I don't need the reconfigure the Ip addresses etc.
This is convenient.
But now I wanted to switch server/client roles, I need to reconfigure it, however the settings page of synergy never shows up to let me configure it, does anyone have the same issue?
I tried to uninstall synergy on my Mac, but when I reinstall it back, it automatically configures itself again and quickly disappears and runs in the background.
It's been a pain for me.
You can't start the Server on Yosemite, because you need to grant access to the process (Synergy) to control your computer:
http://mizage.com/help/accessibility.html
doing that with Synergy should work.
I have a Windows 7 computer, and I'm trying to work with telnet.
I installed/enabled telnet (via control panel, since telnet isn't enabled by default), restarted the terminal, restarted my computer, etc.
But telnet still doesn't work. I'm getting the error : 'telnet' is not recognized as an internal or external command...
I tried editing the PATH environment variable as well, but that hasn't worked either.
I would greatly appreciate any advice.
Thank you very much!
Looks like your telnet is not installed. Simply execute the below command in your command prompt and wait till the mouse progress icon disappears. It works on windows 7. I am not sure on other machines
pkgmgr /iu:"TelnetClient"
I was having the same issue. Fixed it by running CMD as an admin.
If your Windows 7 machine is a member of an AD, or if you have UAC enabled, or both, telnet must be run as an admin. The easiest way to do this is to create a shortcut that calls cdm, and then go to the shortcut's properties and click on the Advanced button and check the "Run as an administrator" checkbox, and you're all set. Scratched my head and rebooted numerous times before finding this out...
since yesterday my true-crypt partition do not automount on startup with my OS every time (sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't).
Yes they are set as system favorites and the checkbox mount on startup is set.
Yes they have the same password, typed with the same (EN INTL) layout.
Yes it worked somehow before a few times.
Thanks for the help.
edit:
OS: Windows 8
Update
It seems only not to work from cold starts.
warm starts seem to work
I have this problem on my Windows 8 laptop. I tracked the problem to the new shutdown process with Windows 8. It won't do a full shutdown/startup when you do, only some sort of hybrid shutdown (https://superuser.com/questions/496241/are-there-downsides-to-windows-8-hybrid-shutdown)
I found that if I use the normal Charm -> Settings -> Power -> Shutdown, it would fail to load the encrypted partition when I got to the desktop.
However, if you use the command line "shutdown.exe /s /t 0" to shutdown, it will reliably load the next time you start up.
I was forced to fix it this way because my Dropbox was on the encrypted partition, and Dropbox would complain that it couldn't find the folder anymore (same with Google Drive and SkyDrive, only worse).
This might fix that problem, but I haven't tried it yet (http://www.askvg.com/fix-windows-8-restart-and-shutdown-problems-by-disabling-hybrid-shutdown-feature/)
Win 8.x seams to offer special shutdown option for a fast restart. This leads also to another special file on the boot driver (besider hypee and page). Therefore the "cold restart" is not a real cold start it's something like hypernation "light".
In the power options you may try to disable the option "turn fast startup (recommended)" selection.
There is an alternative to disabling hybrid boot/shutdown. You can also get it to work consistently if you go to TrueCrypt, Favorites, Organize System Favorite Volumes and then tick the option to Allow only administrators to view and dismount system favorite volumes.
Source.