Gideon Romm wrote:
Bob-
This is actually more of a question for the display manager that you use
than it is for LTSP. A straight X connection is stateless, and
therefore lacks the capability to do session migration (ala Windows
Terminal Services). BUT, X is also modular and powerful, which means
that it can be made to do such things if done intelligently. One
feature of X is the ability to have an "X proxy", which is an Xserver
that would run on the server that the applications would talk to and
which would save state. Then, the X proxy would connect to the thin
client's Xserver rather than the applications connecting to the Xserver
directly. This would free the thin client's Xserver to
connect/disconnect to the Xproxy and the Xproxy always save a cached
state.
The latest GDM (2.8) has some experimental code in it to do such a
thing, using an X proxy such as XDMX or nxagent. Likewise, the NX
client has this capability built in.
It certainly would be a neat feature and one of the few enviable
features of M$ WTS.
Perhaps if someone gets it going, s/he can post something to the wiki?
-Gadi
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 17:18 -0500, bob wrote:
I've started testing 4.2 and so far it works great! Great job -- you
know who you are.
I've seen recent and past threads talking about logging in from more
than one terminal. I use to do this but now I kill a user's processes
when he/she logs in and out. This solved some problems I was having
but creates new ones too.
With 4.2 just rolling out, this may not be the best time to talk about
new features but... What would be involved in allowing a session to
move to a different terminal when a user logs in somewhere else?
bob
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I want to start out by saying that I'm new to the list and haven't
looked into this much yet, but I plan on setting up a server for home
use shortly. One of the things I would like to do if possible is to
disconnect a session, but allow any currently running applications in
that session to keep running. One reason for this is that my wife does
alto of bit torrent downloading and it would be nice to have this
happening on one big happy server thats up all the time so she can shut
down her pc at night and have the files continue to download. Would an X
proxy allow this to happen or is something like this a completely
different thread if possible at all?
Thanks
Matt
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