[Thinstation-general] Fwd: firefox

[Mike E. <thi...@gm...>]

OK, it would be nice if I could remember to quote the list myself :-/

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From: Mike Eriksen <thi...@gm...>
Date: Nov 10, 2006 9:49 AM
Subject: Re: [Thinstation-general] firefox
To: Fredrik Wikefeldt <fre...@gm...>


Please quote the list too.

On 11/10/06, Fredrik Wikefeldt <fre...@gm...> wrote:
> Okay,
>
> thanks for the answer. Let's see if I get it now. After I've connected
> to the thinstation with ssh -X, the display variable is clearly set to
> the thinstation terminal
> ip address. And if I then run an application (firefox) that also is on
> the thinstation,

I'm not sure I follow you. When you run TS with a WM and a local FF,
it's completely server independent. It's simply a stand-alone micro
Linux system, so I can't follow the need for "ssh -X" to a server.

BTW you might want to install the contrib package with MS web core
fonts - improves looks a lot. A bit odd to install though - thanks to
an odd MS license...

>I thought that there would not be any X traffic over
> the network. But I guess somehow it goes from
> thinstation to the application server and then back again.  And it
> always has to be like
> this as long as the window manager is on the application server, hasn't it?
>
> I did as you suggested with icewm and firefox and it works well but I
> seems more like
> something for libraries and cybercafes than for the kind of office
> environment I am working with. So I guess the best  I can do is to run
> firefox on the server just like any application.

It seems what you really is after is an old school X terminal. In that
case I'd recommend you to run NX, but I see in your other thread you
already are testing this.

But I think you should reconsider the X terminal idea. It's really old
school and you have very powerful terminals that easily can handle its
own business as long as we speak running FF.

Your need to run OOo is interesting. This van't be run client side as
it is simple waaay to big. NX is the way ahead here. But you can
easily run FF client side and OOo server side in a window on the TS
desktop. I'll be very interested to hear about your experiences on
this.

Mike


>
> /Fredrik Wikefeldt
>
> On 11/9/06, Mike Eriksen <thi...@gm...> wrote:
> > On 11/9/06, Fredrik Wikefeldt <fre...@gm...> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'd like to know if anyone has successfully run firefox on a
> > > thinstation client, not as an own 'kiosk' session, but called from the
> > > server via ssh -X.  What I would like to have is firefox appearing to
> > > the user as just any application. But when it is launched, (via some
> > > script) you find out at what terminal the user is at and then
> > > the local firefox at that terminal is executed.
> > >
> > > I did that but firefox was unbearably slow, much slower than in the
> > > kiosk mode. The client is a pentium III 750 MHz with 130 Mb ram, so
> > > you would expect it to handle the load.
> >
> > No you wouldn't as the network is the bottleneck. You are streaming
> > every single pixel through the net and you don't even use compression!
> >
> > I suggest you run with a WM (iceWM) and have FF as the only
> > application. The same time you can setup STORAGE_PATH to point to the
> > NFS server, and you are done.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> > > If I manage to get it up to speed, I still need to get firefox to
> > > connect to some nfs home directory on the server so that the user can
> > > save things from firefox as he normally would. I guess that should be
> > > to big of a problem (unless you discard nfs for security reasons).
> > >
> > > /Fredrik Wikefeldt
> > >
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