[X2Go-Dev] Different behavior of X2Go Client from Desktop and TCE

[Stefan Baur]

Am 18.05.2018 um 10:50 schrieb Walid MOGHRABI:

> If we're talking about the x2gothinclient-displaymanager package, this is not "NFS based or anything else" centric and it can be used for both modes.
> It just installs x2goclient and configures it to start at boot as a DM replacement.

This does not seem to integrate well with TCE-Live, if you look at how
things are being started there ... so I don't see how it would bring any
advantage to TCE-Live.  Care to explain how you would use it? (i.e.
which parts of TCE-Live would you ditch/change and pull in
x2gothinclient-displaymanager instead)?

In my opinion, at first glance, we'd lose quite some functionality by
replacing our TCE-Live start script with x2gothinclient-displaymanager.


> I do agree that Live Build with no dependency to any network FS is the way to go.
> For what I can tell, a "full TCE" mode (which means booting to x2goclient, not mini desktop mode which highly depends on what you install in your image) can easily fit in a client with 1Gb memory, maybe less and this is far more reliable and faster.

The regular TCE-Live with the full-screen X2GoClient login will remain
the standard TCE-Live for the time being.  Minidesktop is for special
use cases; we have a few commercial opportunities there that I would
like to explore, that's why we're working on it in parallel.
Also, a local browser is nice to have when you're doing web stuff that
just won't work well over remote connections, say, Videoconferencing or
anything that works fine in Firefox' new rendering engine when used
locally, but sucks even with XRENDER enabled.  Plus, Firefox has
declared that XRENDER is going away soon, and not everybody wants to or
can switch to the "Pale Moon" browser (which is going to stick with
XRENDER for the foreseeable future).

Kind Regards,
Stefan Baur

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