[X2go-user] x2go thinclient - custom xorg.conf

[Neil Hunt]

Stefan,

I tried long and hard to get the xorg.conf file to work with my monitors to
no avail. Debian simply did not have the intelligence to detect various
monitor configurations and I finally had to unfortunately give up.

Probably not the answer you want, however I can say that we went a different
route and it's worked just fine: we decided to create a custom Ubuntu Live
CD image and boot to that via PXE. Ubuntu picks up virtually any monitor
settings and audio works great as well over PXE. I created a custom kiosk
mode so a user boots up right to a full-screen x2go client, just as the
x2go-thinclient package did. The two links I used were

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomization

and for setting up the kiosk mode, I used this description (made for NX, but
just replace the NX settings with the x2go_gtk client and all worked fine).
http://blog.nistu.de/A_kiosk_setup_with_nxclient.html

Let me know if you have any questions.

Neil

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> Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 00:59:55 +0200
> From: "Stefan" <lists at nosolution.doesntexist.org>
> To: x2go-user at lists.berlios.de
> Subject: Re: [X2go-user] x2go thinclient - custom xorg.conf
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> Am Montag, 23. Mai 2011 schrieb Stefan:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I installed recently x2go-one and the thinclient-netboot-environment. So
> > far all works fine. (Sound and printing not yet tested).
> >
> > At the same network we have also a ltsp installation but I think to
> replace
> > ist step by step with x2go mainly because of spee issues.
> >
> > One of the main questions I have ist if it's possible to offer custom
> > xorg.conf to the clients which boot via pxe.
> >
> > Some of our monitors are not correctly recognized by the x-server an need
> a
> > special xorg.conf.
> >
> > In the ltsp changeroot there is the possibility to offer something like
> > xorg.conf.00:00:00:00:00 with mac-address as a suffix.
>
> I've confused this: is not in ltsp but in the pxe configuration ;-)
> In ltsp you define the specifics for each host in the lts.conf
> but maybe the client mac is still a good starting point.
>
> Stefan
>
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