[FreeNX-kNX] n00b Q: How do you connect to the root "console" session from remote?

[Alastair Johnson]

I can think of a couple of possible workarounds if you know you'll need to do 
this, but I've not tried them.

You could share your X session on MachineA with VNC, then use NX to connect to 
the VNC session. I don't think running FreeNX and VNC on the same machine 
would cause any problems.

You could run an NX connection with both client and server on MachineA, so 
that at some later point you could remotely suspend the session and pick it 
up on another machine.

Neither is exactly tidy, but they should get the job done.

On Thursday 15 June 2006 16:43, Eike Hein wrote:
> Shayne Webrider wrote:
> > So,  I have MachineA sitting with a Gnome session running.  I go to
> > MachineB
> > and want to pick up that session using NX.  How do I connect to that
> > session?
>
> You can't. NX works by spawning a pseudo-X11 server on
> the remote box that the session runs on, and then acts
> as proxy, i.e. forwards the protocol stream (with
> niceties like roundtrip suppression and compression)
> to the NX client, which happens to be an X server as
> well (an Xnest instance on Linux or Cygwin/X on Win).
>
> Sessions running on a different X server cannot be
> picked up. NX is a terminal server rather than a
> generic remote control solution.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Eike Hein
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