[FreeNX-kNX] Lost manual suspend ability in FreeNX 1.5.0

[Terje Andersen]

On Wednesday 26 July 2006 23:50, Nicholas Riley wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 02:17:28PM +0200, Terje Andersen wrote:
> > I run my session in fullscreen, so the title bar options I don't know
> > about, but to easily bring up the options use the key-combo:
> > <CTRL>+<ALT>+T
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> I figured some things out:
>
> First, a user can suspend his/her own session with nxnode--no need
> to use nxserver as root.  It takes the sessionid on stdin, like this:
>
> echo sessionid=3CB8179B025577647B5551416169A2A7 | /usr/NX/bin/nxnode
> --suspend
>
> Second, the popup controls are a function of the commercial 'nxclient'
> binary.  FreeNX provides an equivalent binary without these controls,
> so if when installing FreeNX you do not replace the 'nxclient' binary,
> then everything works.  Alternately, if you install FreeNX's
> 'nxclient' shell script somewhere other than /usr/NX/bin, then it will
> attempt to use the commercial NX version.  

Just a clarification; the nxclient script that FreeNX provides also gives this 
functionality, it's just not that "pretty" as the NoMachine NXClient (the 
FreeNX nxclient just uses xmsg).

> Silly me for thinking 
> 'nxclient' was only, you know, an NX client. :-)

Did that myself in the beginning, but the nxclient (either will do the job) is 
actually used by the server. :)

	/Terje