From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 12 16:02:29 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39F5A1065679 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:02:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from colintrebla@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f209.google.com (mail-gx0-f209.google.com [209.85.217.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E305F8FC27 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:02:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk1 with SMTP id 1so10539180gxk.14 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:02:23 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=63G8HyyrHGVtp3KgV0g+Na5xHEtVkGfBkZA5gX0PED8=; b=f8FOKyW+Q8a5YeSSeCgEi7CkB15AIiViCE+zROdPK+9tv3/xHOoy+PujLvmdyPgB0+ Vb4FoApRzf+OFWORyeJpDCV19/iwwh0yDdErSENjAPV2YZ/9P9jD7aUDeT8nJ9rVYFz+ /ymH0SFWP3GwN8XyW1WxlRZNt7IMX8Y3cdhEE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=kTi8h17/uDRdoSNEHiQAf9EonaRMQlPeXeKpWTmaGztZIW94eh9DI5H6BYHMWEHO6b NH0rYnfCx1iAqWUCVJ6pJagxXQ/zJud4hhZFHImuMJIPKC96Oz6mtW9GtFYuypij00fe tjgEuQC0RjK1O7Z4UBUm3/MMZdAgovjeUas40= Received: by 10.151.88.36 with SMTP id q36mr4022810ybl.290.1263312140104; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:02:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from Tickles.e-alberts.com (cpe-071-075-114-213.carolina.res.rr.com [71.75.114.213]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 39sm11020159yxd.27.2010.01.12.08.02.19 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:02:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B4C9D0A.5010308@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:02:18 -0500 From: Colin Albert User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20100104 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20100112105155.GA2980@current.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: watching WebEx session on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:02:29 -0000 On 01/12/10 10:48, Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Matthias Apitz wrote: > >> Has someone had luck with watching a WebEx session on FreeBSD based >> desktop? As far as I understand, it is somehow Flash and RDP based, i.e. >> some tools like Firefox with flash and a RDP client are required. >> I'm always forced to launch a VM with XP to watch such sessions and it >> would be good for me to overcome this situation. > > The Linux Webex client might work. > http://support.webex.com/support/system-requirements.html says it'll > run under Fedora 10, and linux_base-f10 works well. > > Failing that, there's Wine. Firefox and the Flash plugin run under > Wine. There are occasional graphic artifacts and Firefox windows want > a double-click on the close gadget to actually close, but otherwise it > works very well. Java also runs, although there it's not 100%. Maybe > enough for Webex. > > -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA I have also tried WebEx in FreeBSD with similar results. I have not tried using f10, but I wonder if the WebEx Java component detects that it's running in diablo (or rather not a recognised Java engine). FWIW I have had success with other similar products in FreeBSD, namely MeetingPlace. IMO it runs better in FreeBSD than Windows. - Colin