[FreeNX-kNX] Running Remote Apps in a Floating Window - XP Client

[CLIFFORD ILKAY]

Hello,

Same server and client as in my message about printing: Windows XP, 
1.5 client, Mandriva Linux 2005 LE (a.k.a. 10.2) server 
running freenx 0.4.4, another machine on the same network as the 
Windows XP client running Mandriva Linux 2005 LE with the NX Client 
1.5.

I can get a remote KDE desktop with both XP and a Linux client with no 
problems. I configured the NX Client on Linux to run a shell script 
when it connects to the NX server and display the result in a 
floating window. The shell script sets some environment variables and 
then invokes a PyQt client. This works marvelously on Linux. The only 
way that anyone can tell this is not a local application is that the 
initial window for the PyQt application, a login window, appears as a 
blank window for about 30 seconds and eventually redraws to show the 
fields and buttons. Once authenticated, the subsequent windows are 
just as responsive as any local window. Kudos to the folks at !M and 
the FreeNX team.

When I attempt to run the same shell script with the NX Client running 
on XP, it will stall at the "Initializing X protocol compression" and 
eventually time out. Subsequent attempts to connect will pop up the 
"NX - Available sessions" window which will list previous failed 
attempts that are not visible with nxserver --list. I cannot 
terminate or resume those sessions. They hang around forever.

1. Why is the XP Client not able to run the same shell script that the 
Linux client runs without a problem? How can I get the XP NX Client 
to behave as nicely as the Linux client?

2. Why do failed connection attempts show up in the available sessions 
list but are not seen in the nxserver --list?
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Regards,

Clifford Ilkay
Dinamis Corporation
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Toronto, ON
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