Use a different window manager to test, or a build of SL 6? Use VNC to
manage the Windows boxes, or use remote desktop to access them instead
of using an add-on tool and see what happens?

In SL 7.x, Gnome at least has been caught up in the whole
NetworkManager/systemd/sprawling octopus of tangled death. I'm
wondering if XFCE is suffering from the same sorts of problems.  I'm
wondering if you've been applying all the SL patches, if your
particular application supports SL 7 or RHEL 7, and if it's gotten
tied to the NetworkManager configurations and is causing chaos there.

If you like, you might try a much, much lighter weight window manager
and see if that helps. I publish compilation tools for the ancient and
very, very stable and robust "vtwm" manager over at
https://github.com/nkadel/vtwm-5.5.x-srpm/. I think you've got a much
better chance of the application not killing your window manager if
you work with that.


On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 1:19 PM, James M. Pulver <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I have a web app we use for remote control called Remotely Anywhere. It is
> substantially similar to LogMeIn, but locally hosted on each Windows
> computer. Whenever I try and log in from my SL7.1 computer to one of these,
> I get the ICE Tea plugin notice to allow Java to run, but when that pops up,
> my entire desktop (XFCE4) freezes, not just Firefox or that tab. I have to
> wait about a minute for Ice Tea plugin to crash, and then everything starts
> working again.
>
> As you can imagine, this is frustrating when i need to remote in to
> someone's desktop to support them. It doesn't lock up Oracle Java on
> Windows, but I have no desire to try and get Oracle Java working with
> Firefox on SL7.1...
>
> Is this a bug?  Does anyone have any ideas how I might make it not lock up
> the entire desktop environment?
>
> --
> James Pulver
> CLASSE Computer Group
> Cornell University