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

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Do you use a braille display?  I wonder if vnc would transfer braille.  

Alex M


-----Original Message-----
From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Bill
Dengler
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 12:58 PM
To: ljmaher swbell net
Cc: Orca List
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Orca Running on Remote Servers

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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