Arm Based Thin Client (Odroid-C2 Ubuntu 16.04)

Arm Based Thin Client (Odroid-C2 Ubuntu 16.04)

So far the Hard kernel Odroid-C2 with ubuntu and freerdp on X11 seems to provide really good performance even remotefx seems to work pretty well.

Scripts

#!/bin/bash
 
RDPHOST="vspace2.sebekaschools.net"
RDP_OPTS="/f /fonts /gdi:hw /sound:sys:alsa,format:1,quality:high /bpp:16 +window-drag -bitmap-cache /rfx /network:lan /rfx-mode:video"
RDP_USER="/u:sebekaschools\e1"
LOOP_FILE="/tmp/rdp_loop"

rdp.sh

#!/bin/bash
 
source ${HOME}/bin/rdp_env
 
sleep 2
 
touch "${LOOP_FILE}"
 
while [ -f  "$LOOP_FILE" ]
do
        xfreerdp /v:${RDPHOST} ${RDP_OPTS} ${RDP_USER}
done

stop_rdp.sh

#!/bin/bash
 
source ${HOME}/bin/rdp_env
 
rm "${LOOP_FILE}"
killall xfreerdp

Config Files

The basic idea is that you create a user that will start xfreerdp. In my test system I used freerdp as a username. Then I set the user to use fluxbox for a window manager and set lightdm to login this user automatically at startup.
There are probably less resource intensive ways to do this but lightdm is much more cross-distro than doing some init script that can even break between releases

/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

[SeatDefaults]
autologin-user=freerdp
autologin-user-timeout=0

~/.fluxbox/startup

...
$HOME/bin/rdp.sh &
...

~/.dmrc

[Desktop]
Session=fluxbox

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Arm Based Thin Client (Odroid-C2 Ubuntu 16.04)

Scripts

Config Files

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