Problems with Citrix ICA Client

[Lebar, Russell J]

What version of the ICA client are you using? What version of Citrix?
What platform and OS are you using? Debian? Does the problem occur with
all applications or just some? Is there a reason you cannot give users a
Windows desktop?

I can get seamless mode to work just fine from  a Solaris 8 system with
self-compiled KDE 3.2.2 and Solaris ICA client 6.30.1061 connecting to a
similar system running MetaFrame Presentation Server for UNIX 1.2.
Unfortunately no Windows MetaFrame server I can test against. 

-- Russ

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Kruse [mailto:pkruse at arcor.de] 
> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 09:08
> To: kde-enterprise at kde.org
> Subject: Problems with Citrix ICA Client
> 
> (Tried to send this message but with attachments it was too big).
> You can view the snapthosts here: 
> http://home.arcor.de/pekruse/snapshot2.png and
> here: http://home.arcor.de/pekruse/snapshot1.png
> 
> Hello,
> 
> The company I work for has been using KDE since version 1 are 
> using a patched version of KDE 2.2.1 now and are switching to 
> KDE 3.3.2 (because that's the stable Version in Debian).  KDE 
> is used as an integration platform on some hundret 
> workstations.  It is basically used to display applications 
> coming  from different application servers, be it Solaris, 
> Linux or Windows. For Windows applications citrix' ICAClient is used.
> Under KDE version 3 they experience massive problems when 
> running a windows application in a so called "seamless" mode. 
>  In a seamless mode the application window does not have the 
> window decorations, so that placement, recising, minimizing, 
> .. is not done by kwin but by using the windows application's 
> border, titlebar and buttons.  I hope you understand what I 
> mean, or even better you have seen that yourself.  I should 
> point out that the  workstations used are mostly multiheaded 
> with at least 3 screens up to 7 and not in xinerama mode, 
> although they partially will switch to xinerama in the near future.
> The problems we observe with these "seamless" applications are:
> - random focus loss; focus switches to another screen while 
> typing in an application
>   (like typing in word)
> - When moving the application the window get's corrupted, and 
> doesn't show the actual placement,
>   clicking on a menu button opens two menus, I cannot 
> describe it very good so I attached a snapshot.
> - When switching to a virtual desktop with two seamless 
> windows, always one is put at front, no matter
>   which was at front when leaving the desktop
> - there are several other issues with focus in multihead mode
> 
> The list is a little longer, but I think as this is not 
> kwin at kde.org I better stop, hope you see there are massive 
> problems which makes kwin quite unusable in this environment.
> Also i hope you agree that for the enterprise KDE should be 
> able to display window applications, also in seamless mode.
> For now I replaced kwin with metacity, that does not show 
> these problems.  You may notice that metacity is the default 
> window manager in gnome.  Needless to say that I dislike this 
> workaround.  Please also note that these problems have been 
> absent under KDE 2.2.1.
> If you agree that KDE should be able to display windows 
> applications, how can KDE be made ready for this?
> 
> Regards,
> 
>       Peter
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