[gentoo-user] VOIP solution for dump terminals?

[gentoo-user] VOIP solution for dump terminals?

[Zhang Weiwu]

Hello. In an office we helped set up, there are a lot of X terminals for the
clerks. (These X terminals are the old computers from school's lab,
installed simple Gentoo Linux only to start X). Now they need VIOP, is it
possible?  I mean, is it possible the clerks use VOIP on X terminals, when
the terminal equiped sound card, microphone but what they see on the screen
is actually produced by the powerful server (which has only one sound card)?

Ideas welcome! Thanks. I tried searched the portage and didn't discover a
VOIP solution that can work on console which might solve this problem.
(a.k.a "when you make a VOIP call, please use this shortcut to connect to
your own X terminal with telnet and operate the VOIP software")


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Re: [gentoo-user] VOIP solution for dump terminals?

[Iain Buchanan]

On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 17:11 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
> Hello. In an office we helped set up, there are a lot of X terminals for the
> clerks. (These X terminals are the old computers from school's lab,
> installed simple Gentoo Linux only to start X). Now they need VIOP, is it
> possible?  I mean, is it possible the clerks use VOIP on X terminals, when
> the terminal equiped sound card, microphone but what they see on the screen
> is actually produced by the powerful server (which has only one sound card)?

It seems a weird way of doing it, but you could `ssh -Y` back to the
terminal PC and run skype (or whatever) from inside the ssh session...

maybe there is a better way though.
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