Matt- Take a look also at the "nohup" command. It's been around in Unix forever, and is a long-time personal fav.
tell your wife to pop open a terminal and run: nohup bittorent .... Then, you can logout and check the goings on next time you login... -Gadi On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 21:41 -0500, matt wrote: > Gideon Romm wrote: > > Bob- > > > > This is actually more of a question for the display manager that you use > > than it is for LTSP. A straight X connection is stateless, and > > therefore lacks the capability to do session migration (ala Windows > > Terminal Services). BUT, X is also modular and powerful, which means > > that it can be made to do such things if done intelligently. One > > feature of X is the ability to have an "X proxy", which is an Xserver > > that would run on the server that the applications would talk to and > > which would save state. Then, the X proxy would connect to the thin > > client's Xserver rather than the applications connecting to the Xserver > > directly. This would free the thin client's Xserver to > > connect/disconnect to the Xproxy and the Xproxy always save a cached > > state. > > > > The latest GDM (2.8) has some experimental code in it to do such a > > thing, using an X proxy such as XDMX or nxagent. Likewise, the NX > > client has this capability built in. > > > > It certainly would be a neat feature and one of the few enviable > > features of M$ WTS. > > > > Perhaps if someone gets it going, s/he can post something to the wiki? > > > > -Gadi > > > > On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 17:18 -0500, bob wrote: > > > >> I've started testing 4.2 and so far it works great! Great job -- you > >> know who you are. > >> > >> I've seen recent and past threads talking about logging in from more > >> than one terminal. I use to do this but now I kill a user's processes > >> when he/she logs in and out. This solved some problems I was having > >> but creates new ones too. > >> > >> With 4.2 just rolling out, this may not be the best time to talk about > >> new features but... What would be involved in allowing a session to > >> move to a different terminal when a user logs in somewhere else? > >> > >> bob > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------- > >> This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language > >> that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live > >> webcast > >> and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! > >> http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 > >> _____________________________________________________________________ > >> 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 > >> > >> > >> > I want to start out by saying that I'm new to the list and haven't > looked into this much yet, but I plan on setting up a server for home > use shortly. One of the things I would like to do if possible is to > disconnect a session, but allow any currently running applications in > that session to keep running. One reason for this is that my wife does > alto of bit torrent downloading and it would be nice to have this > happening on one big happy server thats up all the time so she can shut > down her pc at night and have the files continue to download. Would an X > proxy allow this to happen or is something like this a completely > different thread if possible at all? > > Thanks > Matt > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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 > > -- -------------------------------------------------------- Gideon Romm | Proud LTSP Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Support LTSP! Buy your hardware at: www.DisklessWorkstations.com www.DisklessThinClients.com (use coupon code: LTSP5P for 5% off thin clients from DisklessThinClients.com) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _____________________________________________________________________ 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
