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--- wiki:components:pyhoca-gui [2011/11/15 09:49]
sunweaver
+++ wiki:components:pyhoca-gui [2013/03/11 12:06]
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-====== PyHoca-GUI - Download/Installation & Usage ======
+====== PyHoca-GUI  ======
+The name PyHoca is a word play combining two powerful entities: Python and Phoca (mascot of X2go, Latin species name for seals).
 PyHoca-GUI is a client implementation for X2Go using [[wiki:libs:python-x2go|the project's Python X2Go client API]] (a Python module). PyHoca-GUI uses wxPython for rendering graphical desktop elements (menus, dialog boxes etc.).
-===== Download/Installation =====
+PyHoca-GUI is designed as a very minimal GUI that behaves very similar to GNOME's network manager applet (nm-applet). It appears as a small Phoca icon (a little seal) that docks to your systray panel (also called notification area) and allows you to manage multiple X2go sessions simultaneously.
-==== Debian GNU/Linux ====
-PyHoca-GUI can be installed from the X2Go package repository. [[:wiki:x2go-repository-debian|Add the X2Go repository to your APT system]] before you continue.
-==== Ubuntu GNU/Linux ====
-PyHoca-GUI can be installed from X2Go PPA on Launchpad. [[:wiki:x2go-repository-ubuntu|Add the X2Go/stable PPA to your APT system]] before you continue.
-==== ====
-After adding either of the above package source to your Debian/Ubuntu system you will need to update your system with the new repository information by starting a terminal and execute the following commands (on Debian make sure you have sudo installed and configured):
-<code>
-$ sudo aptitude update
-$ sudo aptitude install pyhoca-gui
-</code>
-==== MS Windows ====
-[[http://code.x2go.org/releases/binary-win32/pyhoca-gui/|To install PyHoca-GUI for MS Windows click here.]] Download the //bundled// (PyHoca-GUI + VcXsrv + Ghostscript) or the //pure// (PyHoca-GUI only) setup installer to you computer and run the PyHoca-GUI setup and follow the presented installation instructions.
 ===== Usage =====
-The name PyHoca is a word play combining two powerful entities: Python and Phoca (mascot of X2go, Latin species name for seals).
-PyHoca-GUI is a client implementation for X2go using the project's Python API (module) [[wiki:libs:python-x2go]]. PyHoca-GUI uses wxPython for rendering graphical desktop elements (menus, dialog boxes etc.).
-PyHoca-GUI is designed as a very minimal GUI that behaves very similar to GNOME's network manager applet (nm-applet). It appears as a small Phoca icon (a little seal) that docks to your systray panel (also called notification area) and allows you to manage multiple X2go sessions simultaneously.
 ==== Command Line Arguments ====
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 PyHoca-GUI will appear on your desktop as a small icon that docks into your systray (as the GNOME applet for Network Manager does). Find this icon---it looks like a little white seal on grey background.
+Note that on Ubuntu 12.04 or later, the Unity interface does not allow PyHoca-gui to create the systray icon. To enable this, we need to edit the gsettings. To allow all applications in the systray, type this in the terminal.
+<code>
+  $ gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['all']"
+</code>
+If you would rather whitelist a set of applications, use this command instead, where YOUR_APPLICATION is 'pyhoca-gui'
+<code>
+$ gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist \
+      "['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Mumble', 'Wine', 'Skype', 'hp-systray', 'YOUR_APPLICATION']"
+</code>
 ==== Profile Manager ====
-PyHoca-GUI uses the same configuration files as an x2goclient.
+PyHoca-GUI on Linux uses the same configuration files as X2Go Client. (The Windows version of X2Go Client writes its session profiles into HKCU of the Windows registry).
-Thus PyHoca-GUI should work out of the box for most setups and user profiles on a System with a working x2goclient configuration.
+Thus PyHoca-GUI should work out of the box for most setups and user profiles on a (Linux) system with a working X2Go Client configuration.
-If you are new to X2go and try PyHoca-GUI first, then you have to add a session profile for your (first) X2go server.
+If you are new to X2Go and try PyHoca-GUI for the first time, then you have to add a session profile for your (first) X2Go server by right-clicking on the PyHoca-GUI systray icon.
-If you //right-click// on the PyHoca-GUI icon you are offered a sub-menu called //Profile Manager//. From there, you can access all your defined X2go session profiles.
+If you //right-click// on the PyHoca-GUI icon you are offered a sub-menu called //Profile Manager//. From there, you can create new X2Go session profiles and access all your already defined X2Go session profiles, as well.
 ==== Starting Sessions ====
+The usage logic of PyHoca-GUI is a little bit different from that of X2Go Client. In PyHoca-GUI you //first// authenticate to an X2Go Server and //then// you start/resume sessions. It takes a little time to get used to that different concept, but you will soon get to like the advantages of this two-step session startup logic.
 To start a PyHoca-GUI session //left-click// on the PyHoca icon and then choose **Authenticate X2go Server** to be presented with a list of existing session profiles.
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 After you have authenticated against one of your configured server session profiles, you can access the authenticated session profile by //left-clicking// the PyHoca-GUI icon. Navigate through the GUI's menu from there, most of it should be self-explanatory.
+===== Further Readings =====
+For further readings, please also consult the README and TODO documentation files in the PyHoca-GUI source tree on the [[http://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=pyhoca-gui.git;a=tree|X2Go upstream Git site]].

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