Re: [orca-list] Orca Running on Remote Servers

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

I've never done it, but my understanding is that PulseAudio will send
your audio over the network, so this may be an option.

On 10/02/13 12:57, Bill Dengler wrote:
> I don't think VNC transfers audio.
> If it did then technically it should be possible.
> I don't think it does ; so do you know of an alternative?
> Bill
> On 02/10/2013 01:48 PM, Louis Maher wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > My company uses Red Hat 5.7 on Massively Parallel computers.  A few of
> > the
> > nodes of the cluster of processors are login nodes.  These login nodes
> > are
> > used for code editing and job submission.
> >
> > People in our company access the cluster through VNC (virtual network
> > computing) which provides a graphical user interface (GUI) window
> > running on
> > Windows 7.
> >
> > I access the cluster using the character-based SecureCRT windows program
> > which provides a SSH (secure shell) session into the cluster.  Once in
> > the
> > cluster, I use the Linux screen program to get as many character- based
> > windows as I want.  The character-based approach is limited, and I do not
> > have access to the GUI-based job setup and queuing systems.  Often we
> > write
> > plug-ins to commercial software, and that commercial software brings
> > its own
> > powerful and inaccessible GUIs.
> >
> > Questions:
> >
> > If I had a laptop running Linux, is there a way to place Orca on the
> > remote
> > server and give me a GUI interface into the remote cluster?
> >
> > Technically I could make my Linux laptop part of the cluster, but
> > would the
> > job editing and job queuing programs need to be running on my laptop
> > before
> > I could access them?
> >
> > We have several domains, each with its own cluster.  If I wanted to
> > access
> > these other domains, would I have to have a laptop specifically
> > dedicated to
> > each domain?
> >
> > Commercially available job-setup GUI's are extremely powerful for they
> > provide a means to connect several smaller plug-ins to make complex
> > flows.
> > The output of the job scheduling GUI is an extremely complex XML file.  I
> > can make small changes in this file, but writing one of these files from
> > scratch is not practical.
> >
> > So my base question is:
> > If I had a laptop running Linux, is there a way to place Orca on the
> > remote
> > server and give me a GUI interface into remote computers?
> >
> > I will have to use Red Hat 5.7 for my effort.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards
> > Louis Maher
> > 713-444-7838
> > ljmaher swbell net
> >
> >
> >
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> > The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
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>
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> Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
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Christopher (CJ)
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