[X2Go-User] Python3-x2go

[Seth Galitzer]

Long story short: In my thin client lab, we use an RDP client to connect 
to Windows Remote Desktop Servers and have been using XDMCP to connect 
to Linux X desktops. I want to use X2go for the superior performance, 
reliability, and security over XDMCP, but am unable to do so due to 
limitations by the thin client platform vendor. The hardware is 
apparently ordinary x86 so I'm working on rolling my own minimal image 
to accomplish this.

With the current platform, we have desktop shortcuts that to run the 
RDP/XDMCP clients to various hosts. I'd like to try and duplicate that 
with my new image so I don't have to retrain my users. I'm scripting 
freerdp-x11 for RDP connections (with NLA). After trying various ways to 
script x2goclient, I finally discovered pyhoca-cli and it works exactly 
the way I want it to.

So that's why I hope it stays available in some form for a while. If 
there's a better way to run x2goclient completely "headless" or 
transparent to the user, I'd be happy to hear it. I've been searching 
through documentation and haven't found a way yet to do it the way that 
I want.

I already have my PXE server setup, but haven't decided yet if I'm going 
to boot from a network image, or push the image down to the clients to 
pre-load for booting. My minimal debian image with all necessary tools 
is currently just over 2GB uncompressed. I'm not opposed to TCE, but I'd 
like to be able to at least customize the skin with our own branding.

I'd love to hear anyone's thoughts on this. I'm relatively new to X2go, 
so I'm sure there are ways to use it to help with this project I haven't 
thought of yet.

Thanks.
Seth

On 02/28/2017 06:04 PM, Stefan Baur wrote:
> Am 28.02.2017 um 21:24 schrieb Seth Galitzer:
>> I hope this doesn't mean the pure CLI client is being abandoned. I just
>> discovered it in getting a completely scripted solution for my thin
>> clients. I'd be happy to help test should you need help with that.
>
> What exactly are you trying to achieve with the scripted PyHoca-CLI?
> There may be ways to achieve the same result using our new
> X2Go-ThinClientEditon (see
> <http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:howto:tce>, or
> <http://x2go.baur-itcs.de/x2go-tce-stable/> for  builds you can start
> tinkering with), which uses the stock X2GoClient.
>
> Please let us know your use case, and we'll see what we can come up with.
>
> Also, as always, once you're happy with X2Go, please drop us a few lines
> we can publish on our "Success Stories" page
> (<http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:success-stories:start#success_stories>).
>
> -Stefan Baur
>
>
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Seth Galitzer
Systems Coordinator
Computing and Information Sciences
Kansas State University
http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~sgsax
sgsax at ksu.edu
785-532-7790