enabling network connections to the chrome os Xserver

[Trever]

(He's back.)

I have a bunch of developers who are very interested in getting chromebook/boxes, but they all need to be able to display X windows from other servers on the Chrome device (i.e. using the Chrome OS X server).  This issue is all that is holding them back from using a Chrome OS device as their working machine.

Excuses: yes I could figure this out, and it's probably simple, but personally don't need/want this myself, and I haven't found a write up.  Ubuntu is one distro I've not used yet, and not sure what Chrome OS gotcha's there might be.  I'm thinking it's possible to do though.

Is there a ready made recipe for enabling this?

I'd like to get these guys on Chrome OS devices.

Thanks

P.S.  Unlike my previous thread, I realize this is seeking to do something that is pretty much the opposite of seeking secure modes of running, but that's intrinsic to what they want to do and so acceptable to them.

[Olof Johansson]

Hi,

2012/11/2 Trever <trr...@gmail.com>

(He's back.)

I have a bunch of developers who are very interested in getting chromebook/boxes, but they all need to be able to display X windows from other servers on the Chrome device (i.e. using the Chrome OS X server).  This issue is all that is holding them back from using a Chrome OS device as their working machine.

With the new Aura UI, this is no longer possible (at least not easy). Before, Chrome OS used a more traditional X window manager, but now it's all using a single window with in-app window management (simplified, but more or less that's how it works).

So, a traditional X app (client) won't play well with the Aura windowing system.

You are probably better off running the X application remotely and using Chrome Remote Desktop to that remote machine and getting to the application that way.

-Olof

[Trever]

Okay, thank you very much.