[FreeNX-kNX] kontact as singe app

[Fabian Franz]

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Am Dienstag, 3. Mai 2005 18:19 schrieb Hamish:
> On Thursday 24 February 2005 19:35, Fabian Franz wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, 24. Februar 2005 17:42 schrieb Hamish:
> > > Hello Everyone
> > > Sorry if this has been asked on this list, I have been searching a
> > > while and found this:
> > > http://www.archivum.info/nxusers@nomachine.com/2005-02/msg00006.html
> > > which seemed perfect, but I do not have a file called node.conf
> >
> > Yes, because you are using FreeNX the free server implementation.
> >
> > > I would like to run Kontact on windows clients, as a single app (this
> > > is a gentle introduction to users).
> >
> > Very good idea.
> >
> > > Has anyone had some success with this, and
> > > would you mind sharing?
> >
> > It _should_ work with newest CVS (latest snapshot is also fine) of
> > FreeNX, but I just found out that its not working yet, because kontact is
> > started in background ...
> >
> > But starting a terminal and starting kontact in it, should work.
> >
> > This will need some work in CVS. I've opened up a Bug report, to fallback
> > in case of unix-custom to the behaviour of commercial nxserver:
> >
> > Run lsof every ... secs on the socket where nxagent/nxproxy is listening
> > and send him a term signal if there is no longer any connection.
> >
> > I don't like this, but I can't think of a better way at the present
> > moment. Perhaps using the -once option could be considered (I think its
> > still implemented.)
> >
> > GFP, if you read this:
> >
> > Have you thought about a way how to do that more elegant? I think nxagent
> > -once seems to me the cleanest solution, but as always you most probably
> > had some reason to do it the way you did.
>
> Has more been done with this? Anyone had more success? I have been able to
> run kontact directly from console (but I had to start konsole, it did not
> work with unix, custom, console) and it worked, but a bit slowly, also any
> helper apps were not available on the desktop, but showed in the taskbar
> (ie kdewallet KOrganiser etc)

Hm, that is strange.

>
> I have also run kontact --nofork directly with similar results, but a lot
> of cpu is taken and the helper apps are still not available.

CPU should not be taken more, than for xterm + kontact.

cu

Fabian

PS: I think things will get better with 1.5.0 rootless mode, which will be 
incorporated into Snapshots of FreeNX 0.5.0.
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