Hi Adam,

CentOS 6; works with Gnome (from the OS) and/or IceWM. 
I don’t know how successfully: some of our users are using it. 
We are not doing anything special, just installed it.

-- 
Grigory Shamov
Westgrid/ComputeCanada Site Lead
University of Manitoba
E2-588 EITC Building, 
(204) 474-9625



From: Roundtable <roundtable-bounces@muug.ca> on behalf of Adam Thompson <athompso@athompso.net>
Reply-To: Continuation of Round Table discussion <roundtable@muug.ca>
Date: Thursday, February 2, 2017 at 7:17 PM
To: 'Continuation of Round Table discussion' <roundtable@muug.ca>
Subject: Re: [RndTbl] limited Linux Desktop?

What distribution are you using successfully with x2go?  And which desktop environment?  I’m about to try implementing that myself…

-Adam

 

 

From: Roundtable [mailto:roundtable-bounces@muug.ca] On Behalf Of Grigory Shamov
Sent: February 2, 2017 12:36
To: Continuation of Round Table discussion <roundtable@muug.ca>
Subject: [RndTbl] limited Linux Desktop?

 

Hi All,

 

That is perhaps a naive question. I have never had much tho do with desktops.  Now, we offer remote Linux desktop (Gnome mostly) to users with x2go.  Is there a way to configure GNOME (or another) desktop somehow locked to the particular users and perhaps even particular apps? 

 

I.e., so that any Filemanager would stay under selected paths the user has access to? Access itself is not a problem, as it is controlled by UNIX groups, but just browsing say /home with a few thousand user directories gets slow and disk/CPU-intensive. 

 

(Or perhaps the way would be to auto mount users, but thats a rather big change for the rest of the system too)

 

-- 

Grigory Shamov

Westgrid/ComputeCanada Site Lead

University of Manitoba

E2-588 EITC Building, 

(204) 474-9625