I've got a idea/proposal.
Since the x2go Plugin .DEB is for Ubuntu only currently.
I have a solution for nearly every Linux distro that has LXC and I think the Mac also but this won't work on Windows.
Linux Containers (LXC) has been part of the linux kernel for quite a while now. Using LXC on Ubuntu I can install LXC containers running other Linux distro's very easily:
sudo lxc-create -t centos -n my_centosfor instance would create a Centos container with a name "my_centos"
My idea/proposal is not for Ubuntu since the x2go plugin already exists for it.
My idea is for all other Distro's that support LXC (I believe most do).. an Ubuntu LXC container could be created by this command:
as root:
$ lxc-create -t ubuntu -n my_x2go
then start the container:
$ lxc-start -n my_x2go
then loging to lxc (not sure what the default login on another distro is but on ubuntu its "ubuntu" and "ubuntu".
At that point you would be at the LXC container's ubuntu command line prompt and could proceed with installing firefox, the x2go firefox .deb plugin etc etc.
After that everyone would have an x2go plugin enabled web browser available within a container on their system.
Because LXC doesn't use HW virtualization but "process" isolation and LXC shares the "host" OS kernel... LXC is very fast and doesn't use up any of your PC's CPU core's like a virtualbox or kvm VM would just to run this.
Anyway, I am pretty certain this would work quite well for people using other than Ubuntu assuming the plugin on Ubuntu works as it used to.
I'd be glad to help someone interested in trying this on some other distro if they'd like to contact me directly.
If it does work as expected then a plugin solution process could be to produce an LXC container for each distro that supports LXC then just copy that file up to the x2go wiki for later download and use by others as it would be pre-configured in a sense for use except they'd still have to start the container on thier system, login and change any of the plugin config files (index.html etc) to match their needs.
Anyway, just wanted to throw this idea out there.
Brian
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 6:00 AM, <x2go-user-request@lists.berlios.de> wrote:
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- Re: x2go Webbrowser Plugin (Mike Gabriel)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de> To: x2go-user@lists.berlios.de Cc: Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:34:50 +0100 Subject: Re: [X2Go-User] x2go Webbrowser Plugin Hi Bernhard,
On Mo 04 Feb 2013 16:18:43 CET "Bernhard J. Mayr" wrote:
Is there a plan to reimplement the Webbrowser Plugin for x2go?
The Wiki says "Note: the current plugin does not yet support Firefox 4.x." Is there a plan for a Plugin for FF 4.x ?
The wiki page desperately needs an update.
The x2goplugin is available as .deb package for Debian and Ubuntu.
On your webserver you can install x2goplugin-provider. The package contains a little example that shows how to configure a webpage, so that the x2goplugin gets launched once the webpage is visited.
The x2goplugin package has to be installed on the systems from where the browser connects to the x2goplugin-provider site.
Greets, Mike
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