On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 10:39:18AM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > >>>On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 03:03:59AM +0200, Rene Bartsch wrote: > >>>>>From SUN I know you can close the X-session without stopping > >>>>processes/programs/window-manager running on the server (just pull off > >>>>your smartcard from one terminal and put it into another one and keep on > >>>>working. The processes and window-manager have kept running in > >>>>background on the server). > > > > Well, that's fine, but if the Xserver is on the terminal, and you want to > > shut it down, I see no obvious way that you can keep all the clients > > connected to it from falling over. I'm not sure what Sun is playing at, but > > I'm pretty sure it's not 'traditional X'. > > Actually it is. It's the same Xserver that runs on normal workstations. > The difference is a SunRay is NOT an X-terminal. It's a graphical dumb > terminal. Conceptually, a SunRay is a video board and USB hub connected > via ethernet instead of PCI/AGP. The Xserver runs on the server machine, > so a server with 200 SunRays has 200 Xsun processes running.
He didn't *say* SunRay. That's another thing entirely -- almost exactly the same as Xvnc, from what I understand. > The magic of SunRay hotdesking (moving sessions from one terminal to another) > is that as far as X is concerned, nothing changes. The SunRay DDX handles all > of that. It keeps local backing store (ala Xvfb/shadowfb), and sends updates > to the appropriate SunRay terminal. If you pull your smartcard out of terminal > A, it simply stops sending those updates and only updates the local backing > store. If you then plug into terminal B down the hall, it dumps the entire > backing store to terminal B, then goes back to normal operation sending updates > to that terminal instead. Yeah, that's almost 100% identical to what I set up with VNC for my client. I used NIC's with a slightly modified boot CDROM as terminals, but they're toast now of course -- but any acceptable pizzabox is around the same price. I wonder what *Sun* charges for it? It took me about 12 hours to design *and* implement. :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 OS X: Because making Unix user-friendly was easier than debugging Windows -- Simon Slavin, on a.f.c _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
