Did 3 server installation (all for personal use) and each had problems

ThinLinc
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I used nomachine and it works, but from my current client with Debian Sway (Wayland) the graphics are horrible and not really usable. on x11 setups no problem.
So I decided to give Thinlinc a try and installed it on 3 debian 12/13 servers and all had initial problems, which is frustrating.

  1. on the Debians with Mate I got an error message “Could not acquire name on session bus”
    I found fairly quickly the working solution by “… Updated /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99mate-environment with “unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS” …"
  2. but the 2nd Debian - Mate DE is using a different agent IP. I also found a solution to that one, but it would be awesome if during the tl server setup the ip@ could be chosen while being on the server for server and agent. I will try the tl-config /vsmagent/agent_hostname=<valid_hostname> but I am working with IPs
  3. the third system is a VPS with different SSH port, 2FA, no password and keys. I opened a thread for that one already. So login in via SSH works fine, but with the thinlinc client not working.

So at this point only 1 out of 3 is working and that is poor.

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trying that command tl-config /vsmagent/agent_hostname=<valid_hostname> using for hostname an ip address gives me the error that tl-config command not found.
I will go back to nomachine.

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Hi,

I’ve responded to your question regarding 2FA in the seperate thread. Regarding tl-setup, this could be because the ThinLinc paths haven’t been added to your sudo configuration. See:

Otherwise, you can simply edit the file /opt/thinlinc/etc/conf.d/vsmagent.hconf by hand, and set the parameter value using your favourite editor. Make sure to restart the vsmagent service after making any changes.

Hope that helps.