A XFCE Panel on your windows Machine?

[chaosdesign]

You have your HDA setup in headless mode in a closet down the hall, and you want to be able to access applications on your HDA without have Dual Monitors or an annoying window that keeps getting in the way of your work.

I have a solution that may help.

By using Xming you can run these Linux Applications Locally.



coupled with the slim XFCE-Panel (XFCE is a desktop environment similar to KDE or Gnome) you can run all your Linux applications on your windows PC.





All the important setup info can be found in this Amahi XFCE panel site

The applications are installed on your HDA, Xming works as a Xserver Just like any regular desktop session or VNC session.

I have chosen to use multiple windows (One window for each application) as it provides the most seamless expereance.

[chaosdesign]

I would like to send sound to the windows PC running XFCE-Panel.

I have a script to determine the IP Address (IPV4 or IPV6) of the windows PC and then send the sound through to that IP Address. The issue i have is i do not know where to put the script so it runs automatically when the session is started(logon Script).

I also would like to Add an Amahi Menu to the Panel, with links to Key Amahi or HDA pages.

If you can help with this Please reply to this topic, or PM me with ideas that i will try and incorporate them.

[moredruid]

you could put it in your ~/.profile or your ~/.bashrc, both are sourced during your login.

[chaosdesign]

Thanks for the help. I would like the script to apply globally and not just to one user.

Alternatively i could run the script from the Panel after it starts, but i want it to be automatic.

[moredruid]

if you want it to run globally add it to /etc/profile, this is the first file that gets sourced when any user logs in.