Nick<div><br></div><div>I switch a long time ago from FreeNX and also as a paid user of NX to x2go.</div><div><br></div><div>x2go is just a great remote desktop and comes with native clients for Mac, Windows & Linux.</div>
<div><br></div><div>x2go implements its own "server" and clients.</div><div><br></div><div>There is a also a Python based x2go client called PyHoca.</div><div><br></div><div>All is Open Source</div><div><br></div>
<div>x2go audio (pulseaudio), printing, remote file shares etc. all work well without tinkering and it was for me a lot simpler to install.</div><div><br></div><div>If you use debian or ubuntu the installation takes 5 minutes</div>
<div><br></div><div><b>on server</b></div><div><ol><li>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:x2go/stable</li><li>sudo apt-get update</li><li>sudo apt-get install x2goserver x2goserver-xsession</li><li>then add all users to the x2gouser "group"</li>
<ul><li>sudo adduser <username> x2gouser</li></ul></ol></div><div><br></div><div><b>on linux client</b></div><div><div><ol><li>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:x2go/stable</li><li>sudo apt-get update</li><li>sudo apt-get install x2goclient</li>
</ol></div></div><div><br></div><div>only other thing you "might" have to do is edit your /etc/ssh/sshd_config file to </div><div>match the following.. then restart ssh (sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart)</div><div><br>
</div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div><i># Change to yes to enable challenge-response passwords (beware issues with</i></div></div><div><div><i># some PAM modules and threads)</i></div>
</div><div><div><i>ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes</i></div></div><div><div><i><br></i></div></div><div><div><i># Change to no to disable tunnelled clear text passwords</i></div></div><div><div><i>PasswordAuthentication yes</i></div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>some linux versions "may" have those 2 entries set to NO or commented out (same as NO).</div><div><br></div><div><b>Thats it !</b></div><div><br></div><div>If you are on Windows just download & install the Windows version as you would any other Windows app.</div>
<div>Mac is supported but I don't use a Mac so you'd have to ask on the x2go Users mailer how to do it.</div><div><br></div><div>When you start the x2go client you create a "session"</div><div>it will ask you for:</div>
<div>IP address or DNS name of the x2go server</div><div>login ID</div><div>and you need to select what "desktop" you use (Unity, Gnome, xfce, lxde etc)</div><div><br></div><div>Click the "connection" tab and you will see a slider. The purpose of that is to tell x2go client/server</div>
<div>how much compression to utilize.</div><div><br></div><div>If you have a fast internet (I have 17 Mbps)... just move it all the way to LAN.</div><div><br></div><div>then save the profile</div><div>Click the newly made "session" icon picture on the right </div>
<div>enter your password</div><div>answer the linux question about an "unknown server" and your desktop should pop up.</div><div><br></div><div><b>NOW... all that being said realize that with BOTH Ubuntu Unity and with ANY Gnome system the following:</b></div>
<div><br></div><div>Starting in Ubuntu 12.10 there is NO Unity 2D any longer</div><div>Starting with Gnome 3.0 there is NO gnome-fallback any longer</div><div><br></div><div>NO Matter WHAT remote desktop you use (NX, FreeNX, x2go etc) ... as far as I know... NONE of them will be capable of support</div>
<div>Unity 3D or Gnome 3.0 remote desktops because BOTH of those will be using HW video acceleration which as of now no solution is in place.</div><div><br></div><div>NoMachine's website has a notice about this as well.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So... that being said if EITHER of the above apply to you the choices are stay with your distro where you can use Unity-2d or gnome-fallback.</div><div>-or-</div><div>use one of the other "desktops" (lxde, xfce etc)...</div>
<div><br></div><div>For Ubuntu the 12.04 Long Term Support (LTS) release is good for 6 more years so if you use that you can just select Unity or Gnome</div><div>in x2go and you should be good to go because x2go will auto-magically use Unity-2D or gnome-fallback ... whichever is the case</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm assuming x2go on Debian is the same because some of the core developers use Debian.</div><div><br></div><div>brian</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
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1. Re: FreeNX & Pulse Audio? (Nick Couchman)<br>
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From: "Nick Couchman" <<a href="mailto:Nick.Couchman@seakr.com">Nick.Couchman@seakr.com</a>><br>
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>>> On 2013/01/24 at 11:55, Henning Heinold <<a href="mailto:h.heinold@tarent.de">h.heinold@tarent.de</a>> wrote:<br>
> Am 2013-01-24 18:58, schrieb Nick Couchman:<br>
>> I believe the newest versions of the commercial NoMachine system use<br>
>> PulseAudio to forward sound from Linux servers over to pretty much<br>
>> any<br>
>> client. I was wondering if there are any efforts underway to do the<br>
>> same for FreeNX, and how much effort it would be to replace the ESD<br>
>> sound infrastructure with Pulse?<br>
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>> -Nick<br>
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> There is no development within freenx actual. If you want pulseaudio<br>
> now look<br>
> at x2go.<br>
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Interesting...any particular reason?<br>
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Is x2go compatible with the other array of NX clients? It looks like it uses the same NX agent components, and since we use a combination of FreeNX and the commercial NX offerings, I like the fact that one client will (mostly) work with both of the servers.<br>
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-Nick<br>
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