Problem with KDE and LTSP

[Duncan]

Thierry Dumont posted on Mon, 17 May 2010 16:05:44 +0200 as excerpted:

> We have a problem with kde and ltsp (Lightweight Terminal Server
> Project).

I had thought, and Wikipedia seems to agree, that it's /Linux/ Terminal 
Server Project.  Did they recently go more generic and decide to kill the 
Linux specific bit, changing it to Lightweight, instead?

> We posted a message explaining our problem on the ltsp mailing
> list, but, possibly, the answer is more KDE related (possibly).

I expect so, see below.

> Our problem:
> We cannot open KDE sessions on the ltsp thin clients, but everything is
> ok on the consol of the server. Other sessions we have tried (gnome,
> xfce) are ok on ltsp.
> 
> We use the last Ubuntu version (10.04 LTS).

I have no personal experience with this, but I've seen it stated several 
times here, that kde4 is not designed for nor does it work, with multiple 
kde sessions on the same machine.  I don't know why, but that seems to be 
the case.  I imagine there's bugs reported on it if you wish to check on 
them.

>From what I've read, kde3 wasn't actually designed for it either, but it 
happened to work by accident, and once discovered, it was a popular enough 
feature they didn't wish to kill it.  I've read that the problem with kde4 
is that no kde developer has taken an active interest in supporting the 
feature, and enough has been recoded since kde3, that making it work isn't 
exactly trivial.

You're not the first and I'm sure won't be the last to ask about it, 
however.  What those who are really interested in being able to run 
multiple kde sessions at once need to do, is find or sponsor a developer 
so that they have an interest in getting this working.  That would seem to 
be the easiest way to a fix at this point.

So it looks like at least for now, KDE is likely out as a working 
alternative for you.  You'll probably have to choose something else, at 
least short to medium term.

-- 
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and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman

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