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- | ====== X2go's Server Core ====== | ||
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- | :!: This wiki page needs much more work!!! Any help is appreciated!!! | ||
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- | ====== X2go's Server: base package and extensions ====== | ||
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- | The '' | ||
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- | However, in 2011 many new features/ | ||
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- | One feature was an '' | ||
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- | * [[wiki: | ||
- | * [[wiki: | ||
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- | Also, **__if__** the remote server already has a //desktop environment// | ||
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- | This additional x2go package is called // | ||
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- | $ sudo apt-get install x2goserver-xsession | ||
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- | **NOTE:** - this is a change from older versions of x2goserver installs where in previous versions the only requirement was to just execute - //sudo apt-get install x2goserver// | ||
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- | x2goserver-xsession was introduced so that X2Go can be installed on Debian/ | ||
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- | ====== X2go's Server: What is it? What does it do? ====== | ||
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- | The base '' | ||
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- | X2go server currently uses NXv3 based libraries and tools for the backend implementation of X2go (graphical compression & caching for low bandwidth connections). | ||
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- | The individual '' | ||
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- | The latest status of the X2go server' | ||
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- | The latest status of the X2go server extension' | ||
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- | ====== X2go's Server: How it actually works ====== | ||
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- | ===== Starting a New Session ===== | ||
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- | When starting a new session the script called '' | ||
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- | - Find unique $DISPLAY number and unique session ID. This will insert a new session in the database. | ||
- | - Find free ports for sound, graphic, file sharing. After that the the database entry will get updated with these discovered values. | ||
- | - Start '' | ||
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- | CAVEAT for client implementations: | ||
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- | ===== Resuming a Session ===== | ||
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- | TODO... | ||
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- | ===== Suspending/ | ||
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- | TODO... | ||
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- | ====== X2go's Server: Improving documentation... ====== | ||
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- | REQUEST TO X2go USERS: For the improvement of the X2go server manual pages we request everyone' | ||
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- | Task: | ||
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- | * recognize scripts that have to be available to clients (i.e. have to be in $PATH) -> $PREFIX/bin or $PREFIX/ | ||
- | * move other scripts to $PREFIX/ | ||
- | * improve manual page contents (what is the script for, what does it do, what values does it return, etc.) | ||
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