[FreeNX-kNX] Can I use real X display in FreeNX?

[Mario Fux]

Am Montag, 29. August 2005 10.29 schrieb Gian Filippo Pinzari:

Morning the second

> Thorsten Sandfuchs wrote:
> > This is not yet possible, these parts of NX are maintained by nomachine,
> > freenx only reimplements a server, which manages the connection to the
> > nomachine-nxlibs
>
> Well, I'm not sure we can consider a fair deal to have FreeNX just reimple-
> menting what we sell and leaving all the work on the GPL core to NoMachine.
> That's not the way OSS is supposed to work and we'd really appreciate
> seeing FreeNX people contributing to the OSS stuff in a significant way.
> It's obvious that this can't happen until a free client and server
> implementa- tion exists, nevertheless saying that there are parts that are
> supposed to be maintained by NoMachine is substantially incorrect :-).
>
> About desktop sharing and providing Windows desktop in NX sessions without
> the help of a MS RDP server, we think that exporting the display by using
> a simple X client (Windows, OSX, Linux) is the way to go. The XWinX pro-
> ject tried a similar approach:
>
> http://xwinx.sourceforge.net/

I made a quick read of the webpage. Sounds very interesting.Do you know if 
there is still development because there are no news since 2001?

> /Gian Filippo.

thx
Mario