unmigratable  application (see 4.7,  Unmigratable applications  on page 81, for 

detailed discussion on strategies). 

The solution we chose to support FrameMaker users on the migrated Linux client 

was to use a remote terminal services method using Windows Terminal Server 

(WTS). WTS makes it possible for a Linux client to connect using the RDP 

protocol to a windows application session running on the WTS host. Other 

terminal services solutions for this type of application hosting requirement exist, 

but for this small scenario the use of WTS was deemed to be satisfactory. Our 

next step was to install the application on the Terminal Server.

As it is not guaranteed that every application can be run on a Terminal Server, 

we ran some tests by starting FrameMaker several times in different sessions. 

We learned that our version of FrameMaker was not optimized for this scenario, 

since each FrameMaker application instance running on the WTS host 

consumed an equal amount of system memory.

Important:

 If an application is not optimized for terminal servers, it will take 

the same amount of memory for each instance. So it has to be considered that 

the server has enough main memory for handling the expected Terminal 

Server session load.

The connection to the Terminal Server is made by tsclient, a GTK gui for the 

rdesktop application. Using a launcher file on the desktop, it is possible to use a 

$HOME/*.tc configuration file while executing tsclient. Our command syntax for 

starting the tsclient session is as follows:

tsclient  x framemaker.tc

The file framemaker.tc contains all information for the connection, such as IP 

address, user name, etc.

An example screenshot of FrameMaker running inside a Terminal Server client 

on Linux is provided in Figure 6 1 on page 128.

Image manipulation

On the Windows based client, Paint Shop Pro is used for manipulating images 

and taking screenshots. As Paint Shop Pro is not available for Linux, we decided 

to use the GIMP as a functionally equivalent Linux application instead. This open 

source application is very mature and provides a good functional equivalent to 

Paint Shop for the specific uses that the Windows client in this scenario needs. 

Further information can be found at:

http://www.gimp.org

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