Custom Splashtop Packages - Remote Desktop and Firefox

[netham45]

With the help of Kano from the Phoronix forums, I have made my first custom package for splashtop. It's an RDP(Terminal Services) Client, specifically, tsclient bundled with rdesktop.

I'm planning on making a couple more of these, hopefully an X-Chat one(my favorite IRC client), and possibly one of Opera(My favorite web browser)

The package I made is available here: http://netham45.org/ST/va-tsclient.sqx

To install this, please save it into your QSTART.SYS folder(note that you will have to have hidden files shown to save there, under a default configuration.)

Please let me know how this works for you, if you try it.

Disclaimer: I can't be liable for any damages, either physical or software, caused by these!

[netham45]

I've made packages for Firefox 2 and Firefox 3(2.0.0.20 and 3.0.10, respectively)

They are available here:
Firefox 2
Firefox 3

These should be installed in the same method as listed in the pervious post, but it should also be noted that you can't have any of the built-in programs(such as splashtop browser, media player, picture viewer, etc...) running when you launch these, else they'll just launch a new window of the running browser, but, once you launch one of these, you can launch the other program you want.

Disclaimer: I can't be liable for any damages, either physical or software, caused by these!

[lizichuan]

Works great. Thanks for the efforts.
BTW, could you share the detail procedure to make these applications?
Thanks.

With the help of Kano from the Phoronix forums, I have made my first custom package for splashtop. It's an RDP(Terminal Services) Client, specifically, tsclient bundled with rdesktop.

I'm planning on making a couple more of these, hopefully an X-Chat one(my favorite IRC client), and possibly one of Opera(My favorite web browser)

The package I made is available here: http://netham45.org/ST/va-tsclient.sqx

To install this, please save it into your QSTART.SYS folder(note that you will have to have hidden files shown to save there, under a default configuration.)

Please let me know how this works for you, if you try it.

Disclaimer: I can't be liable for any damages, either physical or software, caused by these!

[netham45]

It's kind of hit and miss, because the Splashtop environment doesn't have many packages, and the ones it has aren't very up to date, but, here's how I do it.

The .sqx's are nothing but SquashFS v3.0 FS's. I mention the filesystem version, 3.0, because any deviation on that causes Splashtop to not boot.

Inside the .sqx, there is a script in the root level, named vactl. It's required, and here's the contents of the default ones.

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#! /bin/sh

case "$1" in
   init|mount)
      echo "VA *Program Name* Initializing..."
      mount -o remount,append:$(pwd)/bin=ro /bin
      mount -o remount,append:$(pwd)/etc=ro /etc
      mount -o remount,append:$(pwd)/usr=ro /usr
;;
esac


This script merges the /bin, /etc, and /usr files from the SQX into the main FS, so /usr/foobar in the sqx would be accessable from /usr/foobar on the main filesystem.

To make something appear on the dock, you need 2 files.
/usr/share/applications/vainfo-<Program Name>.desktop, which needs to contain the following code, modified to the sqx's needs:

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[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.1
Type=Application
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=<Tooltip Name>
Comment=<Comment about program>
TryExec=
Exec=<Path to executable>
Icon=<Icon name>
MimeType=



and, an icon, 48x48 PNG format, in /usr/share/pixmaps. To reference the icon in the .desktop file, the path to /usr/share/pixmaps is inferred, so you just call it the direct path, such as 'Firefox.png', not '/usr/share/pixmaps/Firefox.png'

I'd suggest putting your applications in their own folder in /usr/, such as /usr/firefox/, which the built in OS uses.

If you need any clarification, don't hesitate to ask, I'll help you through it if you need. Also, this may not be the clearest post, I wrote it at 1:30 AM.

[lizichuan]

Thanks for the effort to post.

So the package should be compiled using some special compiler, right?

It's kind of hit and miss, because the Splashtop environment doesn't have many packages, and the ones it has aren't very up to date, but, here's how I do it.
....

[netham45]

no, no compiler. You just need to put all your files into a folder, lets say, "/home/Netham45/foobar/" for example.

You have

/home/Netham45/foobar/vactl
/home/Netham45/foobar/usr/ProgramFolder
/home/Netham45/foobar/usr/share/applications/vainfo-<Program Name>.desktop

and
/home/Netham45/foobar/usr/share/pixmaps/<programname>.png
then, you'd do this, provided your version of mksquashfs is exactly version 3.0:

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mksquashfs /home/Netham45/foobar/ va-<programname>.sqx


then simply copy these files to the c:\qstart.sys folder.

[lizichuan]

Thanks for the patient.
For example, if I want to include the mplayer in the splashtop.
How can we do it?

no, no compiler. You just need to put all your files into a folder, lets say, "/home/Netham45/foobar/" for example.

You have

/home/Netham45/foobar/vactl
/home/Netham45/foobar/usr/ProgramFolder
/home/Netham45/foobar/usr/share/applications/vainfo-<Program Name>.desktop

and
/home/Netham45/foobar/usr/share/pixmaps/<programname>.png
then, you'd do this, provided your version of mksquashfs is exactly version 3.0:

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mksquashfs /home/Netham45/foobar/ va-<programname>.sqx


then simply copy these files to the c:\qstart.sys folder.

[tasm]

Thanks for the patient.
For example, if I want to include the mplayer in the splashtop.
How can we do it?

I am also interested in an application that enables Splashtop to play movie files.
Did you find a way to deal with the problem?

[lizichuan]

Not yet.

I am also interested in an application that enables Splashtop to play movie files.
Did you find a way to deal with the problem?