The following information relates to installation of ThinLinc on an Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Fedora platform. Please read the information here before installing ThinLinc, or when encountering problems.
Polkit authentication dialogs during login
Recent versions of both GNOME 3 and KDE contains bugs ([1],[2],[3]) which causes Polkit authentication dialogs to appear during login, when resizing the session etc. It is possible to prevent such dialogs by creating the file /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/40-thinlinc-no-auth-dialogs.rules with this content:
polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
if (action.id == "org.freedesktop.color-manager.create-device" ||
action.id == "org.freedesktop.color-manager.create-profile" ||
action.id == "org.freedesktop.color-manager.delete-device" ||
action.id == "org.freedesktop.color-manager.delete-profile" ||
action.id == "org.freedesktop.color-manager.modify-device" ||
action.id == "org.freedesktop.color-manager.modify-profile") {
if (!subject.local) {
return polkit.Result.NO;
}
}
});
polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
if (action.id == "org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-network-proxy-configure" ||
action.id == "org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-sources-refresh") {
if (!subject.local) {
return polkit.Result.NO;
}
}
});
Please note that the file should be created in /etc/polkit-1/rules.d. Otherwise it may be necessary to restore the SELinux context by running restoreconf on the file. For more information, see Bug 5584.
Smart cards not working on a GNOME desktop
There is a bug in recent versions of GNOME on Fedora that prevents ThinLinc’s smart card redirection from working correctly. Please use another desktop environment if smart card redirection is required.
SELinux
See section SELinux for information about configuring SELinux on this platform.