From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 17 16:14:05 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F139106564A for ; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:14:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nathan.stocks@gmail.com) Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com (qw-out-2122.google.com [74.125.92.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE13B8FC12 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:14:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nathan.stocks@gmail.com) Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 3so209082qwe.7 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:14:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=q8gAH/Slp1CpctuK0ie2vsNQKabBaBwOEnujDuDa6lE=; b=Bsvon61uXzKr0hyad8L4SQnzwG+0qwYnppULLAr/7wZq/2ad4FgVgxd9YjMsiGGFHQ YhRC0yGCuRZz4/v3wEZa0wGl98VeqDcY3odh9UwRRs0+AJRTDy2z2+FR+l1G7Z+quLya JPjXCmfZQclCuPYoBrfw2IIhAplE4XED1rqjk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=mWrE20ES70FuC6Kw2JGNFqbBWWZkPOKxCqU+CpH/pt0A3CxrU3AxdurtoSVFSP0WH8 SLZoMNQGNElVPvRfkty7qGe6yOT7mdE7m/o5kBmwv6QRG0rW6f2VqnT69TDkMnXdsx8l 9CZbIVzC4PNhcTQ+VxyPxwmswNShkdNZT43KU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.75.73 with SMTP id x9mr432879vcj.56.1245255243856; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:14:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090617101407.GB84905@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20090424112709.GA29412@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <1240594738.58743.10.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20090428133027.GA45901@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <1241076847.28498.291.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1241100519.1761.10.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <20090430142744.GA32844@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <1241301413.33649.110.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20090616095729.GA98713@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <1245183702.71590.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20090617101407.GB84905@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:14:03 -0600 Message-ID: <96c9d6a80906170914i78c0d1fas5ffa77020ec28c36@mail.gmail.com> From: Nathan To: Anton Shterenlikht Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dbus, hal over xdmcp? X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:14:05 -0000 On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 4:14 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > no, that doesn't work either. > I wonder if anybody has actually successfully used dbus with XDMCP. > I know it should work, but maybe nobody has tried, so perhaps there > are some issues. > > I have a user group of about 20 people, all under the university firewall, > so insecurity of XDMCP is not a major concern. > I was thinking of having a powerful XDMCP server as an energy efficient > and easy to maintain model, since the desktops only need to have a good > graphics card. If that is not working, then perhaps I have > to switch to plain ssh tunneling, and have full X installation on all > desktops. I don't know anything about dbus or hal, but we're using a FreeBSD 7.2 server that we just used to connect 150 thin clients (peak load of about 100 concurrently connected right now) to it over XDMCP to use gnome. The biggest trick was finding the magic config line to configure xdm with (since gdm's xdmcp doesn't work). After that, our biggest problems are gnome specific. (gnome on freebsd doesn't handle samba-mounted drives very well. And we can't find a browser under gnome on freebsd that doesn't crash a lot [firefox2, epiphany]. And firefox3 is absolutely unusable [takes FIVE seconds to render a drop-down box???]) ~ Nathan