Re: openthinclient is not really a thin client?

hi andres,

Andres Toomsalu schrieb:
> Hi there,
> I'm trying out openthinclient server and it has been raising some questions:
> 1) first I noticed that running applications is really slow (for example 
> firefox) using HP T5135 terminal - little debugging showed that 
> applications are not running on the server side but perhaps on thin 
> client directly?
> Is this really so? Usually thin client systems login into remote desktop 
> (into server) not executing desktop and dektop applications applications 
> locally (or it could be intentional addition but not default behaviour). 
> So you also run gnome dektop session directly on thin client? I would 
> call this kind of system a fat client server then - as it is not really 
> suitable for use with thin client hardware.
> 
you are right. the applications you configure by the openthinclient manager run
locally. and yes, i would call firefox a fat client application as well but it
runs quite snappy on current thin client hardware (VIA 1GHz/1.5GHz, 256/512MB
RAM). right now the HP T5135 (Via Eden 400 MHz, 128MB RAM) is kind of low end
thin client hardware.

to use your thin client as simple X-terminal (like ltsp) you can easily
configure this by the openthinclient manager (have a look at the kiosk mode
section: http://openthinclient.org/tiki-index.php?page_ref_id=82).

> 2) As I understand there is possibility to use xnest or gdm chooser for 
> connecting into remote X server - but what about remote audio and local 
> media support then? Not supported? Any plans to support in future? How?
>