[X2go-dev] x2goplugin

Mon Jun 28 20:42:28 CEST 2010

On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 20:31 +0200, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> thank you for your reply.
> 
> On Mo 28 Jun 2010 09:08:36 CEST Paul van der Vlis wrote:
> 
> >> Main question is: how do i configure the sessions with the x2go plugin?
> >> I understood that there is a .css file and a javascript file managing
> >> the installation and upgrade of the xpi plugin code in firefox. However,
> >> I couldn't find any hints where the plugin retrieves its configuration
> >> from...
> >>
> >> Hints are very much appreciated as I would like to play with the plugin...
> >
> > I think you can use the html sourcecode of http://plugin.x2go.org
> 
> I can't see any hints on configuring the x2go server session from  
> within the html framework... There must be another answer...
> 
> Mike
> 
Here is how we did it.

We created our local web server and, in the root, we placed a file named
x2gobase.html with the following contents:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
  <head>
    <title>SimplicITy Data Service</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="http://plugin.x2go.org/media/x2goplugin.css">
    <script src="http://plugin.x2go.org/media/x2goplugin.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
  </head>
  <body onload="checkPlugin()">
    <div id="x2goplugin">
    <object src="location"
        type="application/x2go"
        pluginspage="http://plugin.x2go.org/index.html"

pluginurl="http://plugin.x2go.org/download/x2goplugin_linux32.xpi"
        data="config.x2go"
        hidden="false"
        name="x2goplugin"
        palette="background"
        height="100%"
        hspace="0"
        vspace="0"
        width="100%">
        <!--x2goplugin //-->
    </object>
    </div>
    <div id="description">
    <h4>SimplicITy Plugin</h4>
    <p>This website will offer you a plugin named "x2goplugin" which
will enable you to start or reconnect to your SimplicITy desktop.</br>
For more information about SimplicITy and other services to simplify
your office, please visit <a
href="http://www.pacifera.com">www.pacifera.com</a></br>
For more information about X2Go, please visit <a
href="http://www.x2go.org">http://www.x2go.org</a>.
    </p>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

As you can see, this is just slightly customized to our needs - very
simple to adapt.

We then created subdirectories for each user.  In each subdirectory, we
created a link to the x2gobase.html named index.html.  In the same user
subdirectory, we created a file named config.x2go with contents similar
to the following:

session=SimplicITy (our utility office product name)
server=x2gohost.mycompany.com
user=<we leave this blank as an extra security precaution>
sshport=443(or whatever port the user is using)
command=KDE
rootless=false

It has worked well for us other than the few bugs we reported.  Good
luck - John