Nomad Prerequisites - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 11 - ADMINISTRATION GUIDE 17-03-2009 Administration Manual

Compositing Manager Extensions
Compositing allows for advanced visual effects of application windows, such as
transparency, fading, scaling, contorting, shuffling and redirecting.
Nomad lets you remotely access desktops from different physical locations. For example,
you can access the same session from home or from work. After an interruption of your
work session, just move to another terminal and resume work there. It is also possible
to copy the currently running environment to a mobile device like a laptop. With Nomad
you can also share desktops for collaboration or training purposes, allowing remote
control and administration.

6.1 Nomad Prerequisites

In order to use Nomad the rdesktop package needs to be installed on your local
machine. Additionally, the following packages can be installed:
• compiz
• compiz-plugins-dmx
• compiz-fusion-plugins-main
• libcompizconfig
• python-compizconfig
• compiz-manager
• simple-ccsm
• tsclient
On the remote machine supplying the desktop, the xrdp package needs to installed,
containing an open source remote desktop protocol (RDP) server.
Additionally, the following packages can be installed:
• compiz
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