Re: epoptes code hacking

On 16/05/2012, at 9:35 PM,
ltsp-discuss-request@... wrote:

> SSH installed in the chroot?
http://tigger.ws/wiki/index.php5?title=Ltsp

James

> 
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:00 AM, Suraj Kumar <suraj@...> wrote:
> 
>> This is what I understand and I'd be glad to hear your answer to the
>> question below. The questions are here because this is what I understand of
>> (edubuntu) LTSP setup:
>> 
>> 1. In a thin-client's X session, (with LDM_DIRECTX=True), it is just an
>> X-Terminal setup inside the ltsp root. (X-Terminal as in
>> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-X-Apps-9.html )
>> 2. Epoptes runs a network listener on the client's ltsp root and does some
>> magic to join the X session of the client node to launch stuff, like VNC or
>> other custom commands. The 'client' who passes network messages to the
>> server is the GUI.
>> 
>> Without Epoptes's magic (or hack around with code in epoptes to make the
>> magic general purpose) is there a direct unix-y way of starting any
>> arbitrary X-client programs in a client's session from the server?
> 

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