Connect to single application

[RajeshHegde]

Hello guys, is it possible to connect to single application using noVNC. It should not bring whole desktop, only the specified application should launch in each session.

[astrand]

The VNC protocol does not support full "seamless windows" (ie multiple client side windows matching remote windows). However, if you can accept that all remote application windows are inside one single client side window, then it is possible. For best experience, you want to use a VNC viewer that can dynamically resize the session when changing the local window. The base noVNC does not support this yet, but there's a pull request that adds this functionaltity: #271

Also, things must be correctly setup on the server side. Don't know about Windows server. On Linux, you will need to run a window manager which is configured for this purpose. In our ThinLinc product, we are shipping OpenBox with a suitable configuration.

[RajeshHegde]

Actually I'm looking for something like Ulteo Application mode using noVNC. Currently I'm using ThinLinc but as far as I know it does not allow to the application in single shot. We need to choose from the profile. Can we modify noVNC to wrap around "rdesktop -S" command in linux. rdesktop -S will produce x11 window of single application. but I don't know how to capture the output of the command.

[RajeshHegde]

You said "if you can accept that all remote application windows are inside one single client side window, then it is possible.". May I know how to do it.

[astrand]

Wrt noVNC, the only thing you need is the support for dynamic session resize, ie pull request #271 . This functionality will be in ThinLinc 4.2. You can contact us at support@cendio.com is you want an updated tlwebaccess package to be used with 4.1.

On the server side, you can run "rdesktop -S -f" as you say. (In ThinLinc, you can create a new profile which runs : tl-run-winapp -f notepad.exe).