[FreeNX-kNX] FreeNX & NoMachine Player - Connection Issues

[Nick Couchman]

>> 
>> ...which indicates to me that it's some sort of timing issue - that 
>> xterm is a very simple request for nxagent to start, and that 
>> something about the window manager is either timing out or causing 
>> nxagent to crash or something similar.
> 
> It doesn't work like that. The "simple" (quick to launch)  request is
> more likely to time-out.
> 
> i.e. (you can try this)
> nxagent is spawned with a display parameter for it to listen on
> eg
>          nxagent :2020
> then xterm is spawned from another shell, with :2020 as its display
> eg
>         DISPLAY=:2020   xterm
> 
> If nxagent hasn't started properly within xterm's timeout and provided the 
> display
> e.g. it hasn't had time to load all its libraries
> then
> xterm (or whatever) gives up and the session is closed.

...which works every time, no problem.

> 
> If this is the case I would expect that once you had a running KDE session
> closing it and immediatly starting another connection should give you
> running sessions from then on,
> which is why I asked about that.
> 
> see just below
> 
> Try this if you have time - but
> use kde cos I'm more familiar with that and I don't need specific
> xfce errors confusing the issue . . .

Okay, I will test with KDE from now on and see what happens.

> 
> 
> 
> Also would you zip over a copy of your /usr/bin/nxnode
> and
> say which FreeNX rpm you installed (they're all a bit different)

nxnode is attached.  FreeNX rpm is FreeNX-0.7.3-2.1.x86_64, which is based on the openSUSE Build Server project home:please_try_again, but with my patch for resuming sessions in NXPlayer.

-Nick





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