Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:38:24 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Nathan <nathan.stocks@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dbus, hal over xdmcp? Message-ID: <1245256704.71590.46.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <96c9d6a80906170914i78c0d1fas5ffa77020ec28c36@mail.gmail.com> 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> <96c9d6a80906170914i78c0d1fas5ffa77020ec28c36@mail.gmail.com>
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--=-e3oi5/n28lVq1UnJDU6V Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 10:14 -0600, Nathan wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 4:14 AM, Anton Shterenlikht<mexas@bristol.ac.uk> = 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 firewa= ll, > > 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. >=20 > 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). It does now. That was recently fixed. Joe > 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???]) >=20 > ~ Nathan >=20 --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-e3oi5/n28lVq1UnJDU6V Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAko5G/8ACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4fa1ACeIHzdQGiQsLPJF8Vn+m5fKANQ C6sAn1WVBH33lqEUI5czXjFQBeVGusy/ =puS8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-e3oi5/n28lVq1UnJDU6V--
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