Remote Display & Thin Client Notes

Gnome-shell has primarily been tested directly on the physical hardware of a computer/server. In the environment of thin clients, there are usually caveats that are discovered.

  • Clutter halts with a fatal error when the Xserver is in 16 bit color. 16 bit color provides much better performance over a network, and was my first depth test. I bumped the Xserver to 24 bit color and gnome-shell initiated.
  • It took over a full minute to start. During this time X is blocked from response, so I was unable to watch the spewage. I will start this up remotely and see exactly what it's doing during this period and report here.
  • Once it finally displays, most of the canvas areas are just white blocks. Some icons appear correctly.
  • Once gnome-shells starts, performance seems ok; considering the fact that I can't read anything. :) When I click into the upper left corner it's fairly responsive. Adding additional workspaces seems fast.

  • The thin clients in my case are running ATI 9250s with the open source ATI driver.
  • This exact configuration and setup works fine with Compiz and gets great frame rates.

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Projects/GnomeShell/RemoteDisplay (last edited 2013-11-22 17:00:06 by WilliamJonMcCann)