dbus, hal over xdmcp?

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 10:14 -0600, Nathan wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 4:14 AM, Anton Shterenlikht<mexas at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
> > no, that doesn't work either.
> > I wonder if anybody has actually successfully used dbus with XDMCP.
> > I know it should work, but maybe nobody has tried, so perhaps there
> > are some issues.
> >
> > I have a user group of about 20 people, all under the university firewall,
> > so insecurity of XDMCP is not a major concern.
> > I was thinking of having a powerful XDMCP server as an energy efficient
> > and easy to maintain model, since the desktops only need to have a good
> > graphics card. If that is not working, then perhaps I have
> > to switch to plain ssh tunneling, and have full X installation on all
> > desktops.
> 
> I don't know anything about dbus or hal, but we're using a FreeBSD 7.2
> server that we just used to connect 150 thin clients (peak load of
> about 100 concurrently connected right now) to it over XDMCP to use
> gnome.  The biggest trick was finding the magic config line to
> configure xdm with (since gdm's xdmcp doesn't work).

It does now.  That was recently fixed.

Joe

>   After that, our
> biggest problems are gnome specific. (gnome on freebsd doesn't handle
> samba-mounted drives very well.  And we can't find a browser under
> gnome on freebsd that doesn't crash a lot [firefox2, epiphany].  And
> firefox3 is absolutely unusable [takes FIVE seconds to render a
> drop-down box???])
> 
> ~ Nathan
> 
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