Michael, The beginnings of the code to handle this is already there, but I think it got put on the back burner and no one took it the rest of the way yet.
There is a program in the chroot called "ltsp-remoteapps", which functions like its counterpart "ltsp-localapps" on the server. Just as on the server, you can open a terminal and run "ltsp-localapps xterm" to launch local a local xterm, within the local xterm, you can run "ltsp-remoteapps gnome-terminal" and get a gnome-terminal on the server. The intent of this was for file associations in firefox, much like you describe. In order to take things the rest of the way, the chroot should copy the .desktop files from the server and modify them to execute as "ltsp-remoteapps foo", so the chroot sees them as applications and automatically runs them correctly on the server. It is this piece of code that has not been written as yet. If you have the time and the talent, this would make a great contribution. Otherwise, I don't think anyone has had the time as yet to code it up and test it. Cheers, -Gadi On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 11:37 +1000, Michael Pope wrote: > I've setup LTSP 5 under Ubuntu 10.04 and have installed some local_apps > such as Firefox. > > If I click on a pdf within firefox it cannot find the associated program > (which is on the server) because it's looking the local /usr/bin directory. > > Is there a way without installing a pdf reader as a local app to allow > firefox (local_app) to access the pdf reader (okular) on the server? > > I don't want to have to install everything into the thin client image. > My problem is that it's not just with pdfs it's also documents and > spreadsheets so that would mean installing openoffice within the client > image as well. > > from > Michael > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate > GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the > lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net -- -------------------------------------------------------- Gideon Romm | Proud LTSP Developer l...@symbio-technologies.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
