[FreeNX-kNX] why should i have nxclient on my nx-server?

[Christian Fischer]

On Friday 08 October 2004 15:41, Kurt Pfeifle wrote:

> Be aware that this is still *Beta* quality software (this is true for
> the NX/NoMachine core libraries as well as for FreeNX server).

This should be no problem in this case.

> > The gentoo ebuild depends nxclient. Well, I don't like to
> > have nxclient on an server,
>
> Like it or not.....

Sorry. I really respect the nomachines and your work. It's a question of 
philosophy.  From my point this should be the servers job

> The NoMachine/NX server versions also require to install the NoMachine
> NX Client first (before the NX Server). Server and Client use some of
> the same libraries, and the libraries are shipped with the Client, but
> not the server. Also, some of the code which makes GUI messages appear 
> to the user interface are embedded in the client.

Okay. Yes, I can remeber that we had such topic on the nomachines list ...
But we don't use nomachines server and shipped libs.

> If you install nxclient from the freenx-0.x.x package. you'll get
> your messages displayed via an "XDialog" box. (Some think this looks
> ugly. But it works and you don't need NX Client.)

Better. ;-)
> s/XDialog/xmessage/g
Not necessary i think. ;-)

> You can also look into the nxclient source code. It is a Bash
> script which tells you what ita does in the code...  ;-)

It has told me what it does. 

Thanks for your response.
Christian
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