HOWTO: Install freenx

Voyageur · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:23 am Post subject:

Hum that is strange. Which version of nxclient have you tried? (the overlay has the most recent one, if needed).

You can try to set NX_LOG_LEVEL=7 in /etc/nxserver/node.conf, and then /var/log/nxserver.log may have some interesting informations on why your connection closes just after authentification. Also, even if it works well with the windows client, you can try to first use a simpler application (xterm for example)
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v912485 · n00b Joined: 05 Feb 2004 Posts: 26 Location: London, UK

Voyageur,

Thanks for your reply, it's much appreciated.

But I have found the problem. When connecting from the Windows machine I was using another user. So when I tried connecting from the Gentoo box with that same user it also worked. So I knew there was some difference in the user settings. It turned out that clearing the font cache in ~/.fontconfig solved the problem.

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nahpets · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 6:06 am Post subject:

I just upgraded nxserver to 0.60 and nx to version 2.1.0. I can start a session properly, but I can no longer disconnect by clicking on the 'x' button. I used to get the 'suspend, termintate, cancel' dialog when clicking on it, but now I get nothing (using nxclient 2.1.0-r1). Anyone know how to fix this?
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Voyageur · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 1:25 pm Post subject:

Did you emerge nxserver-freenx with USE=nxclient or USE=-nxclient?
Also, can you run nxclient on the server (which is the command used by the server to display the 'suspend, termintate, cancel' dialog)? This should either launch NoMachine's nxclient, or display a xdialog/xmessage box (depending on your nxclient USE flag setting)
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nahpets · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 3:21 pm Post subject:

tretre · n00b Joined: 10 Sep 2005 Posts: 18

hello, I attempting to do a fresh install of Freenx on amd64 with the instruction provided on the wiki overlay.
My problems is that I can't emerge nx-2.1.0 that comes with the experimental overlay it ends with

Voyageur · Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 9:09 pm Post subject:

tretre · n00b Joined: 10 Sep 2005 Posts: 18

YES! you guessed it right ccache was causing problem indeed for nx and I had the tree outdated!
great now everything is compiled and installed

now what? how can I try it out?
Good Job btw great integration work thanks
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tretre · n00b Joined: 10 Sep 2005 Posts: 18

wow that's fast!
but for lan with *nixes xdmcp is still faster ... but finally windows is usable again with a gentoo on click away:)
Anyone has tried it under xen? :?:

that would be really cool a new era for computing

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pops45042 · Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 1:30 am Post subject:

I'm using the 0.6 ebuilds for freenx. Is there a way to suspend a session on one machine and resume it from another machine? I'm able to see the session that I used from say machine A and can resume it, but when I move to machine B and try to resume the suspended session, I can't select the "Resume" button on the client. Does freenx not allow this functionallity or am I missing something?

Thanks,
Paul
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RaceTM · Apprentice Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 281

hey all,

I am having some major issues with freenx right now. I have a thread with all of the details, if anyone able to offer some help could post it here or in the other thread, I would greatly appreciate it. I figured I would post something here as I am probably more likely to get some assistance that way!

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-552947.html

Voyageur · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 8:51 am Post subject:

pops45042 · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 12:28 pm Post subject:

I un-merged the 0.6 ebuild and emerged the nxserver-freeedition ebuild and now it all works like it should.

Paul
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elmede · n00b Joined: 25 Mar 2006 Posts: 9

Hi there people!!

I'm successfully running FreeNX without much problems (yet)..

I, however, ran into the trouble of trying to run in a "clean" way an nxclient on the server itself. Trying to run nxclient as a desktop manager... Didn't find much information about that on the net.. So I created an entry in the gentoo wiki..

You can find it in:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/index.php?title=NXClient_as_desktop_manager

I thought maybe it could be useful for someone else...

Of course, it's a wiki, so please edit at will. I know there's much to be improved, so feel free to do it..

Great..

Mede

mana · Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 10:20 am Post subject:

Uhm this howto is great!! exactly what i was looking for!

edit: is there any news on the front? A FreeNX 0.7.0 ebuild available?

And how are your experiences with it? Does it _really_ not work with 3.0 clients? My 0.5 freenx server is accessable with those newer clients.

keep the ball rolling :-)

Christoph
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Voyageur · Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 2:36 pm Post subject:

mana · Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 3:09 pm Post subject:

Thank you for the quick reply

is your current work still at https://cafarelli.fr/svn/voyageur-overlay/ ? If so I'd try it out (with KDE and cups installed

)

have a nice Day
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Voyageur · Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 10:40 pm Post subject:

If it takes too much time to add the ebuild directly in portage, you will probably find a work-in-progress version in the NX overlay. But no guarantee that it works better than in-portage 0.6 version

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mana · Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 3:23 pm Post subject:

the 0.6 version from portage works SO GOOD(!) that i will not try the WIP

). Great Job voyageur. Really.

p.s.: I got a new rank! yippie!
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QkEterror · n00b Joined: 12 Jun 2004 Posts: 48

I get an error while compiling the new net-misc/nx-3.0.0 from portage.

Probably a missing dependency:

Voyageur · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 3:25 pm Post subject:

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Voyageur · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 10:59 pm Post subject:

Hmm, I just tested a nx-3.0 compilation without libXcomposite, and it got to the end.

Did you mean libXrandr? (that's the other one I added at the same time as libXdamage). If not, please post the error (ebuild editing was certainly easier when X was a monolithic ebuild

)
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