Re: [Ltsp-discuss] RFC

2006-09-24 Thread Ben Green
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:45:34 +0100, Richard June <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then I completely misunderstood the purpose of Xdamage. I thought it would > transmit only the parts of the page which had changed, no matter the reason. If this where the case - for video - most pixels will change from

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] RFC

2006-09-24 Thread Richard June
On Sunday 24 September 2006 17:11, Ben Green wrote: > On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 22:21:34 +0100, Richard June <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Xdamage should help immensely, but I don't know of any distro > > which enables it by default. > > I really don't think Xdamage will help at all. This extension is

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] RFC

2006-09-24 Thread Ben Green
On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 22:21:34 +0100, Richard June <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Xdamage should help immensely, but I don't know of any distro > which enables it by default. I really don't think Xdamage will help at all. This extension is for efficiently handling damage done to drawing objects by o

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] RFC

2006-09-24 Thread Richard June
[snip] > So skype, mythtv, sound in browsers just work? They don't. So this is the > reason for my thoughts ... I need to chime in here. ESD isn't the greatest solution, however it's has been the most effective way I've found so far. I have had audio in browsers working pretty well *, th

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] RFC

2006-09-23 Thread Sreenath Battalahalli
I am not sure I have the context entirely, but would like to add the following: Trying to "remote" the audio from ltsp server to client works only in some cases. I tried in vain for a few days to get Skype and kphone working. I used esddsp as the "shim" to do the job. It is extremely frustrating.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] RFC

2006-09-22 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 11:19:52AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Congratulations.  You just described exactly what esd and the esd shim > > basically does. > > So skype, mythtv, sound in browsers just work? They don't. So this is the > reason for my thoughts ... That's right, they don't.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] RFC

2006-09-22 Thread jam
I just read http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/Ltsp5 So maybe I'll just sit and wait. The reason for RFC was exactly this: On Saturday 23 September 2006 05:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The objection to LTSP clients is sound (from my users) > > There are solutions, but they are pretty yu

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] RFC

2006-09-21 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 07:44:35AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > The objection to LTSP clients is sound (from my users) > There are solutions, but they are pretty yuk eg has anybody got skype to work > on a thin client? > > So ... > based on a request for midi on thin clients ... > > A

[Ltsp-discuss] RFC

2006-09-21 Thread jam
Hi The objection to LTSP clients is sound (from my users) There are solutions, but they are pretty yuk eg has anybody got skype to work on a thin client? So ... based on a request for midi on thin clients ... A (small) client daemon that accepts a tcp connection from the server A server program