[tor-bugs] #27894 [Applications/Tor Browser]: TBB Does Not Work With X2Go

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#27894: TBB Does Not Work With X2Go
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 Reporter:  colony.three@…    |          Owner:  tbb-team
     Type:  enhancement       |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium            |      Component:  Applications/Tor Browser
  Version:  Tor: unspecified  |       Severity:  Normal
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 I'm trying to set up the Tor Browser so it runs on a special KVM virtual
 machine, yet I can run it from other machines in the LAN.  To do this I
 have the current TBB installed in machine 'hex', and try to access it from
 'droog' using X2Go.

 X2Go is set to 'Single Application' mode and 'Internet Browser'.  The
 means that the browser is running on hex, and only the visual objects are
 being transferred to droog.  And it means that if TBB is ever compromised,
 the malefactor is trapped in hex.

 Running Firefox this way works perfectly.  Setting the Pyhoca client to
 Internet Browser in droog means that on hex the x2goserver searches for an
 installed browser using /usr/bin/x2goruncommand.  So I modify the relevant
 blob, thus:

 {{{
 if [ "$cmd" == "WWWBROWSER" ]; then
         if [ -e "/usr/bin/firefox.real" ]; then
                 cmd="/usr/bin/firefox.real"
 #*************************************************
         elif  [ -e "/usr/local/share/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/start-tor-
 browser" ]; then
                 cmd="/usr/local/share/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/start-tor-
 browser --debug"
 #*************************************************
         elif  [ -e "/usr/bin/iceweasel" ]; then
                 cmd="/usr/bin/iceweasel"
         elif  [ -e "/usr/bin/firefox" ]; then
                 cmd="/usr/bin/firefox"
         elif  [ -e "/usr/bin/abrowser" ]; then
                 cmd="/usr/bin/abrowser"
         elif  [ -e "/usr/bin/konqueror" ]; then
                 cmd="/usr/bin/konqueror"
         elif  [ -e "/usr/bin/galeon" ]; then
                 cmd="/usr/bin/galeon"
         elif  [ -e "/usr/bin/chromium-browser" ]; then
                 cmd="/usr/bin/chromium-browser"
         fi
 fi

 }}}
 But when I do this and try to run TBB remotely with my Pyhoca settings, I
 get the attached.

 When I try to start TBB in a KVM console window, it's upset that it can
 only be run on an Xwindows system.  But this is bogus as Firefox runs in
 X2Go with the VM in multi-user mode.

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