<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Hello,<div><br></div><div>I recently read about NX and was excited to try it out as it seems more advanced than VNC in a lot of ways, but I've been struggling to get it to work the way I want it to. My main computer has a 1920x1080 monitor, and I do most of my work on there, but sometimes I connect to that computer from my laptop over Wifi and do some work remotely. The laptop screen is much lower resolution than my main monitor. Previously I've been connecting with VNC and using screen scaling in order to access the computer. That works OK, its just that VNC isn't as responsive as would be ideal, even over Wifi. I read that NX is much more responsive so I was eager to try it.</div>
<div><br></div><div>At first I tried connecting in a similar way as with VNC, where I opened a shadow session and connected it to my main session. I was able to get on OK, but whatever screen scaling the NX client does is horrible and the display is unreadable.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Opening a new Unix-Gnome session from my laptop isn't an option, as I would have to close down all my applications on my main computer and then reopen them in this new desktop.</div><div><br></div>
<div>Then I read this page: <a href="http://openfacts2.berlios.de/wikien/index.php/BerliosProject:FreeNX_-_FAQ/Usage_Scenarios" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">http://openfacts2.berlios.de/wikien/index.php/BerliosProject:FreeNX_-_FAQ/Usage_Scenarios</a> which describes a similar usage situation to what I'm trying to accomplish. As I read that, the only way I can figure out how to do it is that instead of launching applications directly on my main computer, I would have to open an NX Unix-Gnome session to localhost, then run apps that way. Then from my laptop I could connect to the same session, and it would rearrange the desktop to handle the different resolution and it would be easier to work because nothing is scaled. The problem with this, though, is that I'm not going to do 8 hours of work every day under the NX session connected to localhost, as its still too slow. Dragging a window around is noticeably slower than with the live system, which seems obvious as there is an additional layer in between.</div>
<div><br></div><div>What I really need is the ability to properly connect from my laptop to my main computer's native Gnome session. Am I doing something wrong, or is this impossible? If the scaling worked, I could still get by with a shadow session, as it would presumably be more responsive than VNC, but my monitors aren't the same resolution. Is there a way to get the scaling to work? It seems like one very common application would be to connect from a laptop to a desktop, and it is very common that laptop screens are lower resolution. Thanks for any advice,</div>
<div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>Nick</div></font></span>