• Install x2go repositories (Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy)

    • sudo apt update
    • sudo add-apt-repository ppa:x2go/stable
    • sudo apt update

  • Install x2go on the server

    • add repositories as mentioned above
    • sudo apt install x2goserver x2goserver-xsession

  • Install x2go on the client

    • add repositories as mentioned above
    • sudo apt install x2goclient

Note: x2go does not seem to work well with Gnome on the remote machine. It seems to work well with xfce. But some gotchas below

  • Xfce4 gotchas
    • Compositor needs to be disabled. Else it’ll be very slow and windows will smear and it’ll generally be unusable
      • Setting -> Window Manager Tweaks -> Compositor -> Disable
      • Or (untested): /usr/bin/xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/use_compositing -s false
    • Disable screensaver. Else window will freeze after some idle period
      • sudo apt remove xfce4-screensaver; sudo apt autoremove