[FreeNX-kNX] First 1.5.0 source snapshot available

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Gian Filippo -

Congratulations.  The enhancements look great and the new behavior will
greatly simplify the clients.

What you are doing is amazing.  Keep up the great work.

- L

----- Original Message -----
From: Gian Filippo Pinzari <pinzari at nomachine.com>
Date: Thursday, April 28, 2005 12:31 pm
Subject: [FreeNX-kNX] First 1.5.0 source snapshot available

> Hi all,
> 
> the first snapshot of the sources that will be part of the upcoming
> 1.5.0 release are available. This is just a snaphost, so don't expect
> everything to work perfectly well.
> 
> This snaphost is aimed at developers, so that they can prepare their
> software to leverage the new NX functionalities. The most oustanding
> difference, compared to the 1.4.0 series, is that now nxcomp runs
> in-process into the X11, RDP and VNC agents and into nxssh. This
> will require small changes into the FreeNX server, mainly in the
> direction of simplification. While previously there were two proces-
> ses to be monitored, namely the agent and the NX proxy, now there is
> only one.
> 
> Another important difference is that now nxagent offers three work-
> ing modes:
> 
> nxagent -D
> 
> Runs a virtual desktop.
> 
> nxagent -R
> 
> Runs in rootless mode, providing seamless window integration.
> 
> nxagent -B
> 
> Just acts as a NX proxy, forwarding the X traffic to the real display.
> 
> The latter mode replaces the previous single-window mode, that was 
> ob-
> tained by running a X client side nxproxy on the server. This is a
> further simplification of the server architecture.
> 
> Future versions of nxagent will accept a -P parameter, specifying the
> protocol that has to be implemented: X11, RDP, VNC.
> 
> Finally, NX client developers will surely appreciate that it is not
> required to run a separate nxproxy to forward the NX traffic to the
> daemons on the clients. An appropriate "switch" command will activate
> the NX transport inside nxssh, letting a single nxssh process manage
> either encrypted and unencrypted connections.
> 
> A final note about key-bindings:
> 
> - CTR+ALT+F
> 
> Toggles full-screen mode.
> 
> - CTRL+ALT+T
> 
> Shows the terminate, suspend dialog.
> 
> - CTRL+ALT+M
> 
> Maximizes of minimizes the window.
> 
> You can now resize the nxagent window. Unfortunately the desktop on
> the server will not be resized. We'll start working on this as soon
> as the present software stabilizes.
> 
> You can scroll through the desktop using the mouse or the following
> key-bindings:
> 
> - CTRL+ALT+Mouse
> 
> Drags the viewport, so you can view different portions of the desktop.
> 
> - CTRL+ALT+Arrows or CTRL+ALT+Keypad
> 
> Moves the viewport by an incremental amount of pixels.
> 
> There are a number of other nifty features in the working:
> 
> - CTRL+ALT+S
> 
> It will activate "screen-scraping" mode, so all the GetImage origi-
> nated by the clients will be forwarded to the real display. This
> should make happy those who love taking screenshots ;-). By pressing
> the sequence again, nxagent will revert to the usual "fast" mode.
> 
> Last but not least, the new nxagent will maintain a shadow frame-
> buffer, where it will try to reflect the content of windows as they
> are drawn on the real display. This should solve the problems we have
> historically had with clients using the X server as a pixmap cache,
> like OpenOffice.
> 
> The sources are here:
> 
> http://www.nomachine.com/sources/development/
> 
> Please be sure you read the announcement for additional information
> and check the CHANGELOG of any of the released components:
> 
> http://www.nomachine.com/news_read.php?idnews=140
> 
> Have nice time with NX ;-).
> 
> /Gian Filippo.
> 
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