Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux PC as a Remote Desktop Node

[cyelae via arch-general]

On 2018-07-27 19:07, Foxtrot Mike via arch-general wrote:

Hi all,

Currently we have around 10 employees who develop software using Visual
Studio. The idea is to install the development tools on the Windows
Server system, and to have all the developers connect to the server 
over

RDP using low-end low-power computers. The server is pretty beefy
though. The low end client PCs will save up-front cost as well as power
bills. The network backend will not have any issue with the increased
RDP traffic.


I'm not sure about the auth part given my little experience with it, but 
if you're going to log into a server via RDP, can't you simply have your 
lightweight machine automatically open a default session [1], connect to 
the windows server, and authenticate users there?


If you're going to only have one app running on the client machines, you 
don't need a window manager; xinit do that [2] [3]


[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinit#Autostart_X_at_login
[2] 
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinit#Starting_applications_without_a_window_manager

[3] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=107319

Re: [arch-general] i3wm (randomly?) freezes; SIGCONT seems to fix it

[cyelae]

(Sorry if I sent this mail twice, I'm having troubles with my mail 
client)


I've experienced locks too, nothing in logs that I could find,
but after swaping back to the main kernel, from linux-ck, everything was
fine. Maybe this is related for you too? The update that caused the
lockups seems to match

http://ck-hack.blogspot.fr/2016/09/bfs-497-linux-47-ck4.html

Alas I still have no explanation for the random lockups some people
are seeing, but I have seen reports of it happening on mainline
kernels as well now, so while I'm always suspicious of my own code,
there is also the chance that BFS exacerbates an issue in mainline.
Something that appears common is onboard Intel graphics with the
Haswell chipset.


https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/log/?h=linux-ck