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== Introduction ==
we don't provide this workstation anymore
* The purpose of this workstation is to provide a complete and defined setup for developers, to ease the learning curve and to produce quick results.
* We also use this workstation to give the testers a defined working environment.
* This workstation is currently hosted as a LXC container on a root server with Server4you, located in datadock, Strasbourg.
* Please understand that we cannot give access to everyone. We will only give access to people we know and trust. Please contact Timotheus if you want to get access.
* If you want to setup a similar workstation yourself, please visit [[Setting up the hosted developer workstation with Fedora]]
 
== Remote Desktop with X2Go ==
We are using the [http://www.x2go.org/ X2Go] project for remoting the Ubuntu desktop to your machine (Linux, Windows, Mac are supported).
* Recommended by Timotheus: See http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:installation:x2goclient for download and installation instructions
* Alternatively, there is another client, a wxPython based system tray applet: http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:installation:pyhoca-gui
 
Please use these settings:
* Host: workstation01.solidcharity.com
* Login: this will be your username
* SSH Port: 22
* Session Type: please choose LXDE instead of KDE (LXDE requires less resources and allows more users at the same time depending on RAM available)
* you can also change other settings, eg. the fullscreen display
 
[[File:X2GoConfig.png|thumb|center]]
 
The empty desktop will look like this:
 
[[File:LXDEemtpyDesktop.png|thumb|center]]
 
Some useful programs are:
* Konsole: to get a command line
* Konversation: an IRC client for taking part in the OpenPetra chat at freenode.
* Geany: a text editor that is powerful and easy to use
* File Manager
* Chromium Webbrowser and Firefox Webbrowser
* MonoDevelop: IDE for C# development
* Bazaar Explorer: GUI for working with Bazaar code repositories
* pgAdmin3: work with your PostgreSQL database
 
In the default configuration on Windows, X2Go does not support Alt-Tab for the remote session, to switch between applications on the remote desktop.
See this post [http://www.terheyden.com/blog/?p=202 x2go client – getting Alt+Tab to work]! Basically, modify the settings of the XServer, to the options: <code>-rootless -notrayicon -clipboard -keyhook</code>. Be careful on German Windows systems, to set the path for vcxsrv.exe correctly, eg. <code>C:\Programme\x2goclient\VcXsrv\vcxsrv.exe</code>. The default path is wrong, and you cannot start the x2go client anymore, until you fix the setting in the registry (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Obviously Nice\x2goclient\settings)!
 
== Configuring your user account ==
=== Github ===
You need to get an account on Github, which is a service where we host the code of OpenPetra: https://github.com
 
Alternatively, you can also download a zip file from [https://github.com/openpetra/openpetra/ Github] or use the nightly developers zip file, from [https://sourceforge.net/projects/openpetraorg/files/openpetraorg/devzip-nightly/ Sourceforge]
 
=== Hexchat ===
 
It is important to write and talk to other developers!
 
Meet the OpenPetra developers in the IRC chat, room #openpetra at Freenode!
 
Just start Hexchat from the Internet menu, select the default Freenode server, and join the channel #openpetra!
 
== Getting started ==

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