I did not realize that you could run an X program in the chroot. I had tried running the whole desktop in the chroot, but never thought to try running a specific program. That makes things much less annoying.
Thanks for the info! Todd On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Alkis Georgopoulos <[email protected]> wrote: > Στις 02-01-2012, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 11:29 -0500, ο/η Todd O'Bryan > έγραψε: >> You'd also be able to install a new program or make a tweak without >> having to rebuild the image and restart the clients, wouldn't you? > > Not to my knowledge. Run `dpkg -L firefox` and see where the "firefox" > package puts its files. All over the file system. I don't think there's > any easy way to expose all those directories to the clients, AND to > rebuild any icon/menu/whatever caches dynamically, etc etc. > Maybe the /usr/local/* dirs can be utilized for this, but I doubt it > would be painless. > >> I also still haven't figured out a good way to install/update programs >> that use a GUI installer/update. Especially annoying are Eclipse >> plugins > > If they're per-user plugins, they get installed > in /home/username/.something, so you just install them normally from a > user account. > If they're per-system plugins, and no .deb packages exist for them, just > mount --bind whatever dirs you need from the server to your chroot, and > run that program while chrooted. You do have X access there, I don't > suppose eclipse requires anything more fancy like system dbus to install > plugins, does it? > > For the future, it is planned that LTSP chroots will be bootable > read-write from a client or from a virtual machines, so that one can > administer the chroot graphically (e.g. with virtualbox). > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex > infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to > virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual > desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure > costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
