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Bug 1660515 - Remmina NX plugin no longer works
Summary: Remmina NX plugin no longer works
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Status: ASSIGNED
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: remmina
Version: 33
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Pavel Alexeev
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-12-18 14:02 UTC by Matt Castelein
Modified: 2020-11-03 18:16 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: remmina-1.3.3-1.fc29 remmina-1.3.3-1.fc28
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Last Closed: 2019-04-05 01:54:48 UTC
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Description Matt Castelein 2018-12-18 14:02:56 UTC 
Description of problem:
Used to be able to connect to remote desktops with the NX plugin but now get the error: "Warning: This plugin require [sic] GtkSocket, but it's not available"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
remmina-1.2.32-1.fc29.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Try to open remote desktop using NX

Actual results:
Error about missing plugin

Expected results:
Connects to remote desktop
Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2019-02-28 19:42:55 UTC 
freerdp-2.0.0-48.20190228gitce386c8.fc29 remmina-1.3.3-1.fc29 gnome-boxes-3.30.3-2.fc29 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 29. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-e3b2885a25
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2019-02-28 19:43:21 UTC 
freerdp-2.0.0-48.20190228gitce386c8.fc28 remmina-1.3.3-1.fc28 gnome-boxes-3.28.5-2.fc28 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 28. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-b2d986c3e9
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2019-03-01 03:36:09 UTC 
freerdp-2.0.0-48.20190228gitce386c8.fc29, gnome-boxes-3.30.3-2.fc29, pidgin-sipe-1.24.0-3.fc29, remmina-1.3.3-1.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-e3b2885a25
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2019-03-01 22:23:26 UTC 
freerdp-2.0.0-48.20190228gitce386c8.fc28, gnome-boxes-3.28.5-2.fc28, pidgin-sipe-1.24.0-3.fc28, remmina-1.3.3-1.fc28 has been pushed to the Fedora 28 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-b2d986c3e9
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2019-03-02 01:47:12 UTC 
freerdp-2.0.0-48.20190228gitce386c8.fc29, gnome-boxes-3.30.3-2.fc29, pidgin-sipe-1.24.0-3.fc29, remmina-1.3.3-1.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 6 Matt Castelein 2019-03-02 13:37:10 UTC 
Now getting a blank, black desktop window and the same warning message.  The message still has the typo as well.
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2019-03-06 06:21:17 UTC 
freerdp-2.0.0-49.20190304git435872b.fc28 gnome-boxes-3.28.5-2.fc28 pidgin-sipe-1.24.0-3.fc28 remmina-1.3.3-1.fc28 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 28. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-b2d986c3e9
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2019-03-06 15:12:50 UTC 
freerdp-2.0.0-49.20190304git435872b.fc28, gnome-boxes-3.28.5-2.fc28, pidgin-sipe-1.24.0-3.fc28, remmina-1.3.3-1.fc28 has been pushed to the Fedora 28 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-b2d986c3e9
Comment 9 Matt Castelein 2019-03-23 21:24:29 UTC 
Installed updates for nx-libs and nxproxy today.. Thought I'd give this another check.  It's still not working.
Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2019-04-05 01:54:48 UTC 
freerdp-2.0.0-49.20190304git435872b.fc28, gnome-boxes-3.28.5-2.fc28, pidgin-sipe-1.24.0-3.fc28, remmina-1.3.3-1.fc28 has been pushed to the Fedora 28 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 11 Simone Caronni 2019-05-19 08:41:19 UTC 
Just rolled out a new snapshot of FreeRDP (they don't do releases and keep on changing the ABI/API) and a new Remmina release:

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?packages=freerdp

Can you please try this and check if it's working? Thanks.
Comment 12 Matt Castelein 2019-05-22 11:12:14 UTC 
I'm still getting the same message about GtkSocket. (Still has the typo as well)
Comment 13 Simone Caronni 2019-08-20 20:06:56 UTC 
Another update with Remmina 1.3.5, but there seeems to be no update to the NX part.
Comment 14 Matt Castelein 2019-08-21 13:49:10 UTC 
I've reproduced this issue on two more machines with Fedora 30.
Comment 15 Simone Caronni 2019-08-22 12:58:54 UTC 
Same as before, just rolled out a new snapshot of FreeRDP and a new Remmina release:

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?packages=freerdp

Please try this and check if it's working. Thanks.
Comment 16 Matt Castelein 2019-08-22 13:23:31 UTC 
Still getting the warning, but at least the typo is fixed!
Comment 17 Simone Caronni 2020-02-08 16:55:57 UTC 
Many commits later... if someone wants to give it a try:

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-483cbdf643

I don't see much happening on the NX front though:

https://gitlab.com/Remmina/Remmina/-/releases
Comment 18 Matt Castelein 2020-02-10 15:18:21 UTC 
The typo in the warning message got fixed, but not the GtkSocket issue itself.
Comment 19 florian 2020-02-15 22:03:44 UTC 
Seems to be an issue with remmina relying on x11 specific GTKSocket... see here: https://www.linux-magazin.de/ausgaben/2017/01/wayland-und-gtk/ 

Starting remmina on the cmdline and setting the env variable GDK_BACKEND=x11 worked for me


$ GDK_BACKEND=x11 remmina
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