Re: Desktop roaming ?

[John Gotts <jgotts ww2 tqstats com>]

In message <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005021228180.22897-100000@mofo.eecs.umich.edu>, Dav
id Helder writes:

>Another wishlist item is being able to run Gnome on multiple computers
>using the same configuration files (eg, having a home directory on NFS).  
>Or is this already possible?

I do this at home and at both of my offices (for a grand total of three NFS
servers and over a dozen clients).  Somebody filed a bug report about GNOME not
working over NFS but I haven't been able to reproduce it.  ;-)

The only problem I've run into is version skew between my development machines
and the rest of the machines that generally run earlier revisions of several
key packages (normally because I like to keep production machines in sync with
the latest Linux distribution plus updates.)  [Of course, backwards and
forwards compatibility are hard to achieve unless the GNOME hackers decide to
freeze configuration file formats in the stable releases.]  In one case, GNOME
would not start on a client, but typically just things like icons get displayed
incorrectly.  For these machines, it is sufficient to not save your session on
logout.

John

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