Enstaka X11-applikationer (seamless windows): Undersöka möjligheter att dela ut enstaka X11-applikation. TightVNC stödjer numera storleksändring av framebufferten, men ej i X11-servern. Undersök ifall det går att använda tekniken på något sätt. Dock måste vi nog kunna köra flera frambuffers samtidigt, för dialogrutor etc. Titta på libvncserver: http://wrzx69.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de/~gene099/index.html. Solitary X11 application (seamless windows): Investigate if and how solitary X11 applications can be published. TightVNC now supports changing the size of the frame buffer, but not in the X11 server. Investigate if the TichtVNC techinque can be utilised in some way. Probably we will have to run several frame buffers in parallell in order to manage dialogues etc. Look at libvncserver: http://wrzx69.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de/~gene099/index.html.
It seems like "Citrix Metaframe presentation server for UNIX" actually are using *one* Xserver for all applications, but with a special window manager. This is probably the way to go. Re-targeting to 1.4.
Should implemented RDP seamless windows first. This means that VNC seamless windows have to wait until 1.5/2.0.
This project might be useful: http://metavnc.sourceforge.net/
The preliminary target milestone is 1.5. We should start with the Windows client. Decision from produktråd 2005-04-21. This is a large bug. Many customers and partners are interested.
Another link: http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/
Today I gave a presentation about Seamless Windows to Peo, Henrik and Johan. The presentation is available as /home/peter/thin/workshop-seamless.odp. My main points were: * Seamless Windows for Windows-to-Windows is a crowded market, with several free products (Windows Longhorn, 2X ApplicationServer etc) * ThinLinc is by nature sub-optimal for Windows-to-Windows application publishing, mainly because TL is a Linux-based product. * Implementing a full application publishing/SW solution requires many things that we do not present have, such as local drive access, PDA access, clip board support for all formats etc. See the presentation for details. In the end, all agreed on that we should *not* implement a full-blown seamless windows mechanism now. We could however, make small enhancements that will also be beneficial to non-seamless customers. This includes: * Support for changing session size dynamically (bug 2043) * Support for multiple sessions per user (bug 715) * Support for passing a command to execute from the client (bug 2044) Some or all of these enhancements could be consider for the next release (1.5.1).
Note: Some Novell guy is working on single-app mode in TightVNC. See http://vnc-tight.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/vnc-tight/branches/1.5-partial-sharing/.
The time estimation is just a sum of bug 2043, 715, and bug 2044.
This was requested at the user conference.
The Matchbox WM seems to work great for this use case.
I've tried Matchbox now. Bad news: The documentation is lagging behind. The Freecode data is not updated. The download page is blank (https://matchbox-project.org/sources.1.html). The "older releases" link is broken. yumdownloader cannot find a source package. The link to the Bugzilla (http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/) only leads to a page which says "Intel acquires OpenedHand". The Subversion repository is broken as well. However, on the positive side: It seems to be a quite small and nice window manager. It is available by default in Fedora, CentOS and RHEL6, probably in others as well. Not in RHEL5 though. I've tried it with ThinLinc by entering this Start Command into the client: matchbox-window-manager & firefox It works very well! Especially in conjunction with the dynamic resize. Basically, there's only one problem: * In the default configuration, even main the main window has a title bar. It has a X button for closing the app, as well as a "window meny" which becomes active if you have more than one application. It allows you to switch between apps. The only problem is that this gives you "double" title bars, since you have the tlclient title bar as well. * You can use the option "-use_titlebar no" to avoid the problem above. However, you cannot close the app easily, and there's no way to switch between windows (especially since Firefox has apparently removed the Window menu). I guess the ideal solution would be to have a small title bar with a "X" button, to allow closing the app, but without any title. Instead, transfer the title to the VNC viewer by changing the VNC "desktop name". Could be a nice hack, shouldn't be too hard when we have mended vncconfig. In general, I'm somewhat keen on introducing some command such as "tl-appwm" which could be a wrapper for whatever WM and settings we find most suitable for publishing Unix applications. Or, perhaps a command which starts the WM and then runs the specified commands. We could even start shipping MatchBox without any modifications.
My plan is to create a single app profile on the demo system. However, there seems to be some kind of incompatibility with that Firefox version and Matchbox 1.2. Need to check.
(In reply to comment #14) > My plan is to create a single app profile on the demo system. However, there > seems to be some kind of incompatibility with that Firefox version and Matchbox > 1.2. Need to check. A Firefox profile was added to usdemo last week. The problem with eudemo is reported here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=758233 I've managed to work around it by building MatchBox as a 32 bit application. A profile to eudemo has been added as well.
(In reply to comment #15) > I've managed to work around it by building MatchBox as a 32 bit application. A > profile to eudemo has been added as well. Btw, I was building Matchbox in conjunction with libmatchbox, like this: # cd libmatchbox-1.9 # ./configure --disable-xft --enable-pango --enable-shared=no --enable-jpeg CFLAGS="-m32" # make # make install # cd matchbox-window-manager-1.2 # export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig # ./configure CFLAGS="-m32 # make # make install
Note: On Ubuntu 11.04, Matchbox+Firefox seems to be fundamentally borked. On Ubuntu 12.04, it works if you override the broken default Ubuntu theme, like this: matchbox-window-manager -theme MBOpus Relevant versions: 11.04: matchbox-window-manager 1.2-3ubuntu2 12.04: matchbox-window-manager 1.2-7ubuntu1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xpra http://xpra.org/
(In reply to comment #5) > Another link: http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/ http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/x11vnc_opts.html#opt-appshare
https://community.thinlinc.com/t/seamless-mode-or-similar/896
