Hi List,

First of all,I am very impressed by the work you have done and would like to thank all involved.

We are a company that provides a kind of CRM system over the net to our customers. (See www.lindix.nl, text is Dutch)

Currently we use GoGlobal but we want to switch to x2go. However, there is a missing piece. In GoGlobal it is possible to start an application on the client by the use of the extension of the file. So I can write an Excel sheet in my application and subsequently start the file, the result is that a local session opens on the client with the Excel sheet.

I realize that there are security issues here, but for our application this would be a real bonus.

Is there any chance this could be implemented? If the number of hours involved is reasonable, we even would pay for that. <snip> I'm not entirely sure but you may be able to do this yourself. I can

On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 10:19 +0200, Dick Kniep wrote: think of two possible ways but I have tried neither.

It is possible to start a specific application rather than a destkop. If one started something like Konqueror or Nautilus, I wonder what would happen when one clicked on a file to open it. It may very well open in the associated application but I'm not sure.

If you wanted more granularity, i.e., to pass a specific file rather than searching through a file manager, you may be able to adapt the scripts yourself. It is the beauty of open source. X2Go is largely a collection of bash and perl scripts that tie together various technologies (the NX libraries, ssh, pulseaudio, sshfs, etc.). Perhaps you could add some kind of case statement or other branch logic to parse the passed file for the extension and then launch an application based thereon, e.g.,

EXT=${1%.*} if [ "${EXT}" = ".xls" ];then COMMAND="/usr/bin/oocalc ${1}" elif [ "${EXT}" = ".odt" ];then COMMAND="/usr/bin/oowriter ${1}" . . . fi

I'm just guessing at the syntax and do not know if it is possible but we have been able to highly customize our X2Go scripts for our very specific environment.

I recently posted a scratch sheet to this list on what we found as we investigated the process X2Go undergoes to start and stop sessions. It describes what scripts run when. Good luck - John