Proposal for a Remote Desktop Server.

[Scott Moser]

On Thu, 2 Jun 2011, Marcelo Boveto Shima wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Scott Moser <smoser at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 1 Jun 2011, Marcelo Shima wrote:
> >

> X2goagent changes the output s/nxagent/x2goagent. This will break
> FreeNX, but it is a reason that can be ignored since freenx is not in the
> repository.

I'd think that we could fix freenx, right?  I'd say we should.
Fyi, there are a few changes I made to a freenx-server in a ppa at
https://launchpad.net/~awstrial-dev/+archive/nx/+packages .

The patches are in debian/patches, and affect
 - handling of '=' (and other characters) in the CMDLINE.
 - zenity support to nxdialog.
 - kind of hacky:
   add "endsession hooks" (when user closes window and selects
   'terminate', a runparts will be done on a certain directory).

> I tried for 2 times the MOTU process, nxcompshad was accepted but
> no nx-x11/nxagent, no nxcomp, no nxcompext nor freenx. And I must
> say that nxcomp and nxcompext packages uploaded to the repository
> last month are almost identical to the packages from freenx-team ppa.
> So the work was just redone.
>
> These were just rants. I needed to do that =).

Well, luckily stgraber is pushing on that now, so we may get *something*
into the archive.  Thank you for your work in the past, I've used it and I
know that many others have.

> http://spice-space.org/page/Features/XSpice
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~alon/xspice

Awesome to see that work is being done there.

>
> XSpice is a xf86-video-qxl driver fork, so just execute Xorg with an
> xorg.conf using it.
> The best thing about it is that Spice is not an xorg 6.9 rc(something) fork.
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~alon/xspice/tree/README.xspice?h=xspice.v4

Yeah, that is *huge*.

> For the future I want a Spice greeter for lightdm. =)
>
> If x2go is the choice for Ubuntu, I have no problem with it, but
> I think it is important to add support for managing remote desktops
> technologies in the core of the session manager. That is the solution I'm
> proposing. The solution will involve lightdm developers and can be started
> now and be stable for Ubuntu 12.04 lts release.

I think that would be great, and people would be open to accepting such
work.  I would suggest filing a blueprint, you can copy me.  If you're
willing to do all the work, then there shouldn't be any real issue.

Scott