NX client on FC4

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 3/8/06, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 17:08 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > On 3/8/06, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> >         On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 15:04, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> >         > On 3/8/06, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu <m3freak at rogers.com> wrote:
> >         >         Hello Everyone,
> >         >
> >         >         Is anyone here using the NX client for Linux (any
> >         version) on
> >         >         Fedora
> >         >         Core 4 with a freenx server?  If you are, have you
> >         experienced
> >         >         any
> >         >         problems with Metacity not starting in the remote
> >         Gnome
> >         >         session?
> >         >
> >         > I am using the NX client ith FreeNX, but I use KDE and
> >         haven't noticed
> >         > any problems, on the contrary, I am very impressed coming
> >         from VNC.
> >
> >         I've had an assortment of problems with sessions lingering
> >         that should have been terminated and not being able to
> >         resume sessions that should have been available.   I don't
> >         think they are fedora-specific problems but I'd appreciate
> >         any insight - it is great after the connection works.
> >
> > I'm sorry to again have a KDE centric answer but here is what I do and
> > works flawlessly.
> > - Setup freenx on machine with KDE (in my case FC4)
> > - Login in with NX client (i have tried both Windows and another FC4
> > machine)
> > - Enjoy and use
> > - Use the Logout button in KDE when done (this has never failed to
> > close the session for me)
> >
> > I have done this over both wifi/WAN and simple ethernet/WAN
> > connections.
> ----
> I can't speak for Les or Kanwar, but my problem is not with logging out
> but sometimes resuming 'suspended' sessions and that is probably my
> biggest frustration as I have a fairly well defined workspace with a
> terminal with 5 shells in my first window - specific directories and one
> with a root shell and one with a root shell on a separate server, the
> second window with phppgadmin, the third window with Quanta Plus - my
> primary development software and the 4 workspace, Firefox with several
> tabs. When I cannot resume the session, I have to in essence, recreate
> it though I have some shortcuts to get things back to where they were,
> it's never the same as I had left my suspended session and it's
> frustrating.
>
> Craig


Does the  desktop environment not save your session on logout, thereby
recreating it for you on login? This won't work as well with firefox though.

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