[K12OSN] X -query possible with LTSP 5?
Les Mikesell
les at futuresource.com
Mon Oct 22 16:57:41 UTC 2007
Jim Kronebusch wrote:
> In the past with LTSP we could do an "X -query 192.168.1.254 -quartz" from a mac OSX
> with XDarwin installed. Then I could run a terminal session from within a window on the
> Mac OSX desktop. Does anyone know if this is still possible with LTSP 5? I tried to
> mess with it for a while on Friday but didn't have any luck, I was thinking this might
> not work because XDMCP is no longer used. If this isn't possible, does anyone know a
> way to make this work with LTSP 5? I am not against a VNC session, but I had trouble
> before with keyboard mappings with VNC. I am running Edubuntu 7.04 with LDM_DIRECTX and
> LDAP.
I don't know what ltsp 5 uses, but what you really want from OSX is the
NX client and freenx on the server... X should work if you can enable
XDMCP but NX is nicer. The mac client will even let you resize the
window in the middle of a session.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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