[X2go-dev] Hardware SSH acceleration

John A. Sullivan III jsullivan at opensourcedevel.com
Thu Sep 23 18:59:32 CEST 2010


On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 18:01 +0200, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote:
> One possible solution:
> 
> 1) use PXE boot for your thin clients, mounting everything over the network.
> 2) in local GNOME, run only a bottom panel with menu for apps that
> needs to be run locally.
> 3) On the remote GNOME, run only a top panel.
> 
> Now, instead of running a complete GNOME session, simply run
> gnome-panel from x2go. That way, you'll have a "mixed-mode" session so
> that users feel like they're doing everything on the same machine,
> when in fact they're not.
> 
> It is a work-around, but it felt quite nice here.
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That's a really neat idea.  We do something similar to provide seamless
Windows applications for our remote desktops using seamlessRDP but I
never thought of actually delivering the remote desktop itself that way.
It would probably work for our Windows users, too.

I have to think about the dangers of user error when it comes to data
storage.  In our seamlessRDP environment, both the Windows applications
and the X2Go applications are pointing to the same data store.  That
would not be the case in this scenario.  The applications should keep
things straight but I'm concerned about them using the wrong file
manager and getting very confused.  Have to think it through but thanks
for a creative solution - John




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