Setting up X2Go

If you wish to have Windows Remote Desktop-like experience when we access a Linux hosts, X2GO is probably the best solution. X2GO runs on the NX or NoMachine protocol. Contrast to the solution that runs a X server on a Linux host, and run a client application on another host, we can leave a session and resume it with NX or X2GO, which offers the experience similar to Windows Remote Desktop. 

Below is a "minimal" setup for a Fedora Linux server and a Windows client. We call it a "minimal" setup because we do not install a full Linux desktop, rather, we install a graphical terminal like xterm. 

1. Install the X2GO server on Fedora Linux
   

   
   sudo dnf install x2goserver x2goserver-xsessions xterm
       

2. Install the X2GO client on Windows. For this, we download the client installation package, and run the installation package.
   
3. Now we can use X2GO -- nothing needs to be done on the Linux server
   1. Start the X2GO client on the Windows host
   2. Create a new sessiono if we have not done so
   3. When creating the new session, we specify the Linux host we connect to and the user name we log on
   4. It is important to note that we should select the "Session Type" as "Single Application" and enter the command as "/usr/bin/xterm" since we did not install a full Linux Deskop and only installed xterm
   5. To connect to the Linux server and run xterm, we open the session.
   6. We can close the session. Next time when we open it, it resumes from where we close it