Show HN: GUI configuration for Xrdp – XRDPConfigurator
xrdpconfigurator.com
xrdpconfigurator.com
I'm also the author of X11RDP-o-Matic, an open sourced utility to automatically download, build, and install Xrdp and the X11rdp X server back-end; http://scarygliders.net/x11rdp-o-matic-information/
XRDPConfigurator itself is available to try out - versions currently available for Ubuntu 14 (.04 & .10) 32 & 64bit, and Debian 7/Wheezy 32 & 64 bit. I'm in the process of producing packages for additional distributions - the difficulty being making sure the python libraries the application uses are available in the target distribution.
The program was written entirely in Python, compiled to C via Cython, and subsequently compiled to object code dynamically linked to the python libraries.
I am however considering treating the Python version as being "the application was prototyped in Python" and re-writing it in C++, as that would help to solve dependencies on PySide and other python libraries - that might not be viable on my part due to not having done C++ for a long time. We'll see how that goes.
The xrdpconfigurator.com site itself is still a WIP. I'm busy making more content.
The application took me roughly 8 months to develop from scratch - a lot of that was due to Xrdp having lots of new features added to it in that time, which I just had to implement - the big one being the xrdp login window was made a lot more customizable.
The biggest challenge is time, and prioritising what gets done first - I'm a massive team of one who's doing _everything_ from setting up the web site (itself using django and weaving together djangocms, zinnia-blog, and oscar for the licensing shop back-end), running and maintaining the web and email servers, developing the product, producing the distribution packages, creating the site content, attempting to tell people about it (marketing ;) ) and probably lots of other stuff I've forgotten to mention :)