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

[Gerry Reno]

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 at 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