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

[Shayne Webrider]

Hrm...so maybe I'm looking at the wrong product.  Is there an RDP style app
for linux that will do what I'm trying...?  (basically high speed remote
control of an existing desktop?)

On 6/15/06, Eike Hein <sho at eikehein.com> wrote:
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> 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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