[OmniOS-discuss] X11 application support

[Theo Schlossnagle]

A few things that might help you our

1) this is not in core by design.
2) using a browser remotely sounds painful... try ssh options to either
forward a port (-L) or act as a SOCKS proxy (-D) both *super* useful.
3) this does not solve your "I can only manage an HBA with a Java GUI
issue"... you should burn that vendor's offices down*.
4) There are people using Joyent's pkgsrc work to build X libs.

* please don't actually burn anything down, just vote with your budget and
buy products that don't suffer this way

What I'd really love to see is someone start a desktop IPS repo on top of
OmniOS.  Build X11 stuff and publish it there.  Once that happens, the
whole community can benefit.  Another awesome option that would likely be
much more fruitful would be to hack pkgsrc to publish IPS artifacts.  That
said, I have no desire to build or maintain anything related to X11, so it
shan't be me that does it.

Best regards,

Theo



On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Marion Hakanson <hakansom at ohsu.edu> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> We often use X11 tunnelling over SSH connections in order to run various
> X11 applications on remote servers.  An example might be to run a web
> browser on such a server in order to access the management functions
> of an appliance in the datacenter, or maybe a vendor-supplied Java GUI
> app to manage a component, perhaps a RAID HBA.  Yes, we generally can
> find a command-line tool for accomplishing most of these tasks, but
> it's not always feasible.
>
> I've been looking at OmniOS for a role in our datacenter environment, and
> it looks to me like out of the box, OmniOS cannot host such applications.
> I didn't find any X client shared libraries in the IPS repo, for example.
>
> Before I head off to solve this problem on my own, I thought I'd ask:
> Is anyone already using OmniOS to run X11 apps in this manner (displaying
> to a remote X server), and if so, how do you accomplish it?
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
> Marion
>
>
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