On 6 June 2010 18:51, cougarmaster <voipster3@gmail.com> wrote:
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Anyway my main question would be will video playback be looked into? Since with ubuntu 10.04 out and most of the things I have tried seems to have enhanced the speed of ssh and stability. Though most people don't need it now it is a great feature to have since video calls are getting popular it would really enhance x2go usage further.
It's far from the most important feature, imho. It'd be nice to have, I guess, but if you compare it to the possibility of using a scanner connected to the client, then that's far more important. But anyway... It's on Nomachines roadmap for 4.0, iirc, and I think that's the way forward if any.
However, in some situations, you can probably fake it. If you run gnome-panel with an upper panel from the terminal server and a lower panel from the client, then you get sort of a "mixed-mode". If you then have a launcher for firefox and totem on the lower panel and remove it from the upper panel, then it will feel very natural to launch them on the client while all other applications are run from the ts. The settings and history will be stored on the client, of course, but you might be able to fake that as well, using some sort of synchronization. If you click on URLs in other applications, then you'll still launch the application on the ts instead of the client, but you could probably setup a redirect somehow. If you make a script that takes Firefox' parameters and save them to a file which the client polls, for instance and then fire up Firefox on the client using the same parameters.
I realize it's not exactly what you asked for, but it might be a good workaround for the time being.
Anyway, I hope it helps you.
Jo-Erlend Schinstad