On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 15:20 +0200, Mike Gabriel wrote: > Hi x2go-folks, > > here is another question to the developers... > > When talking to school teachers here in Kiel, there was a very central > demand to thin client work stations: run application on the thin > client hardware. > > in schools this is needed for: > > o accessing USB-devices like LEGO mind storm robots etc. > o starting development environments on the thin client CPU (e.g. eclipse) > so > that programming of ROBOT devices can be tested locally > o play media (DVD, AVI on CD or USB-Stick) on the thin client > o start firefox locally (but with the user's profile), esp. because of > flash > media, but also animations on websites > > As I know, in LTSP there is a solution for that (a weird bash script > called ltsp-localapp or so). > > My question: is there also an idea or an approach for x2go how local > CPU usage of thin clients could be implemented? I suppose, there is no > implementation yet, is it? > > My basic idea of how it could be done: > > o mount $HOME of the x2goserver on the client via sshfs, this mount > should be > tunneled through the main SSH connection (I know this is the other way > round compared to x2goprint spool dir and shared folders... this > might need > some work and ideas before we go into deatails) > o issue a script call on the thin client > o set some environment variables on the thin client from within this script > ($HOME, $USER etc.) > o let the x2goclient start the local app (like firefox, vlc, > mplayer, eclipse) > > As this is probably the most needed feature herearound I'd love to go > into detail with this issue sometime in August/September. > > Plz let me know what you think, > Mike > > I could see a great use for this with multimedia/video files - John
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