lurch comments on Classroom with thinclients and proxmox-backed VMs

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

bro, did you know that X11 is network transparent for exactly that scenario. the Xclients (running on a central server) can connect to a remote Xserver on the thin client. Xpra can deal with unstable connections. XDMCP can handle multi user environments. It was like magic back in the day. You could have a GUI app running on your workstation in the office displayed in your living room.

AFAIK they have something like that in wayland, too. not sure how complete it is. didn't try it yet.

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[+] poinck@lemmy.world [S] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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[–] KaninchenSpeed@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I'm currently running gnomes rdp server as a terminal server in a test VM. The rdp performance is so much better than x11 or wayland (with waypipe) forwarding for anything 3d.

Also you get gnomes login screen so you can do active directory/ldap login.

Changing servers is as simple as changing the server ip on the client.

Or if you want to move whole classes/users without user interaction, you can create a dns subdomain for that class/user which points to the correct server for that class/user, which you can change, of cause this only works if each class/user is only using one terminal server at a time.