Hello, all. We have two clients interested in using thin clients to access X2Go Server. This is not an area of expertise for me. I do see the documentation on creating an image for a thin client with X2Go as the display manager.
However, does anyone know of any thin clients that will run relatively "off-the-shelf" with X2Go either by using the firefox plugin or a simple installation of the standard X2Go client? Thanks - John
From what I understand there are some clients who's vendor OS supports NX, but since x2go isn't exactly NX I think you'll have to spin your own image.
Bri
On 7/22/10, John A. Sullivan III <jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com> wrote:
Hello, all. We have two clients interested in using thin clients to access X2Go Server. This is not an area of expertise for me. I do see the documentation on creating an image for a thin client with X2Go as the display manager.
However, does anyone know of any thin clients that will run relatively "off-the-shelf" with X2Go either by using the firefox plugin or a simple installation of the standard X2Go client? Thanks - John
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Hello John,
there is a german company selling thin clients with x2go connection software included:
http://www.rangee.de/site/en/1.html
there too is an australian company with a very small device:
I don't know all possibilities to include clients inside already existing thin client devices, but some of those distribution had asked us about how to include x2goclient, so maybe there are already some more possibilities.
Regards,
Heinz
Am 22.07.2010 16:52, schrieb John A. Sullivan III:
Hello, all. We have two clients interested in using thin clients to access X2Go Server. This is not an area of expertise for me. I do see the documentation on creating an image for a thin client with X2Go as the display manager.
However, does anyone know of any thin clients that will run relatively "off-the-shelf" with X2Go either by using the firefox plugin or a simple installation of the standard X2Go client? Thanks - John
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Sorry for pointing in the negative direction, I hadn't looked in some time. Great to hear x2go is getting so much vendor attention.
On 7/22/10, Heinz-M. Graesing <x2go-dev@x2go.org> wrote:
Hello John,
there is a german company selling thin clients with x2go connection software included:
http://www.rangee.de/site/en/1.html
there too is an australian company with a very small device:
I don't know all possibilities to include clients inside already existing thin client devices, but some of those distribution had asked us about how to include x2goclient, so maybe there are already some more possibilities.
Regards,
Heinz
Am 22.07.2010 16:52, schrieb John A. Sullivan III:
Hello, all. We have two clients interested in using thin clients to access X2Go Server. This is not an area of expertise for me. I do see the documentation on creating an image for a thin client with X2Go as the display manager.
However, does anyone know of any thin clients that will run relatively "off-the-shelf" with X2Go either by using the firefox plugin or a simple installation of the standard X2Go client? Thanks - John
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Heinz-M. Graesing wrote:
there is a german company selling thin clients with x2go connection software included:
which of these connection-module would fit for x2go? http://www.rangee.de/site/en/21.html
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On 22.07.2010 16:52, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
Hello, all. We have two clients interested in using thin clients to access X2Go Server. This is not an area of expertise for me. I do see the documentation on creating an image for a thin client with X2Go as the display manager.
However, does anyone know of any thin clients that will run relatively "off-the-shelf" with X2Go either by using the firefox plugin or a simple installation of the standard X2Go client? Thanks - John
I collected some experience with thin clients from HP. The image is a stripped down Debian where all access to command line has been blocked and the dpkg binary manually deleted.
It's not hard to modify the system, just boot Linux from either PXE or USB.
They have Firefox installed, so you should be able to use the X2go firefox plugin.
Extract /usr/bin/dpkg from the dpkg package and copy it in, and you're able to install packages. This way you should also be able to include the x2goclient.
I preferred to have real PXE thinclients and set up a chroot on a Skolelinux Terminalserver: http://blog.debalance.de/?p=125
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Hi,
On 22.07.2010 16:52, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
Hello, all. We have two clients interested in using thin clients to access X2Go Server. This is not an area of expertise for me. I do see the documentation on creating an image for a thin client with X2Go as the display manager.
However, does anyone know of any thin clients that will run relatively "off-the-shelf" with X2Go either by using the firefox plugin or a simple installation of the standard X2Go client? Thanks - John
I collected some experience with thin clients from HP. The image is a stripped down Debian where all access to command line has been blocked and the dpkg binary manually deleted.
It's not hard to modify the system, just boot Linux from either PXE or USB.
They have Firefox installed, so you should be able to use the X2go firefox plugin. <snip> The last point about Firefox is interesting. I don't have units here to test but, if Firefox is installed on a thin client, can one run the
On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 14:20 +0200, Philipp Huebner wrote: plugin? If one can run it, will it be written to flash so itis available in the future or will it need to be downloaded every time one wants to run X2Go? Actually, I'm guessing the plugin is not cached in memory but always must be written to disk since it asks to restart Firefox. Can the thin clients write such a plugin to disk? Thanks - John
On 07/23/2010 11:27 AM, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 14:20 +0200, Philipp Huebner wrote:
Hi,
On 22.07.2010 16:52, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
Hello, all. We have two clients interested in using thin clients to access X2Go Server. This is not an area of expertise for me. I do see the documentation on creating an image for a thin client with X2Go as the display manager.
However, does anyone know of any thin clients that will run relatively "off-the-shelf" with X2Go either by using the firefox plugin or a simple installation of the standard X2Go client? Thanks - John
I collected some experience with thin clients from HP. The image is a stripped down Debian where all access to command line has been blocked and the dpkg binary manually deleted.
It's not hard to modify the system, just boot Linux from either PXE or USB.
They have Firefox installed, so you should be able to use the X2go firefox plugin.
<snip> The last point about Firefox is interesting. I don't have units here to test but, if Firefox is installed on a thin client, can one run the plugin? If one can run it, will it be written to flash so itis available in the future or will it need to be downloaded every time one wants to run X2Go? Actually, I'm guessing the plugin is not cached in memory but always must be written to disk since it asks to restart Firefox. Can the thin clients write such a plugin to disk? Thanks - John
John,
The plugin is stored in the users profile here:
.mozilla/firefox/SOME_RANDOM_NUMBER.default/extensions/x2goplugin@obviously-nice.de/plugins/
Now if the thin client is able to store user settings I would think they
could persist the plugin.
Regards, Gerry
Hi,
On 23.07.2010 17:27, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
They have Firefox installed, so you should be able to use the X2go firefox plugin. <snip> The last point about Firefox is interesting. I don't have units here to test but, if Firefox is installed on a thin client, can one run the
On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 14:20 +0200, Philipp Huebner wrote: [...] plugin? If one can run it, will it be written to flash so itis available in the future or will it need to be downloaded every time one wants to run X2Go? Actually, I'm guessing the plugin is not cached in memory but always must be written to disk since it asks to restart Firefox. Can the thin clients write such a plugin to disk? Thanks - John
Most the system is on a read-only mounted partition, but there is a small read-write partition to store settings.
With a little bit of typical Linux know-up you can modify anything on the system. It's a normal flash-drive. Mount it rw and anything is possible. You could prepare one thin-client, create an image and copy that onto all the others.
Regards,
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On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 14:10 +0200, Philipp Huebner wrote:
Hi,
On 23.07.2010 17:27, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
They have Firefox installed, so you should be able to use the X2go firefox plugin. <snip> The last point about Firefox is interesting. I don't have units here to test but, if Firefox is installed on a thin client, can one run the
On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 14:20 +0200, Philipp Huebner wrote: [...] plugin? If one can run it, will it be written to flash so itis available in the future or will it need to be downloaded every time one wants to run X2Go? Actually, I'm guessing the plugin is not cached in memory but always must be written to disk since it asks to restart Firefox. Can the thin clients write such a plugin to disk? Thanks - John
Most the system is on a read-only mounted partition, but there is a small read-write partition to store settings.
With a little bit of typical Linux know-up you can modify anything on the system. It's a normal flash-drive. Mount it rw and anything is possible. You could prepare one thin-client, create an image and copy that onto all the others. <snip> Thanks. That makes perfect sense. We were just hoping to find one that could be drop shipped off-the-shelf and work without creating a custom image. I've been following up the two leads Heinz sent and we'll see what we find - John
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