[X2go-dev] Off-the-shelf thin clients

[John A. Sullivan III]

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.
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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