[FreeNX-kNX] NoMachine releases NX 2.0

[Kurt Pfeifle]

On Thursday 22 June 2006 15:42, Eike Hein wrote:
> JCA wrote:
> >    Does NX 2.0 come with the capability to connect to existing X sessions?
> 
> No. 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 com-
> pression) to the NX client, which happens to be
> an X server as well 

Correct.

> (an Xnest instance on Linux 
> or Cygwin/X on Win).

Not correct.

The Xnest-like thingie is called "nxagent". nxagent runs on the 
remote NX proxy, not the local NX client. nxagent *is* your 
pseudo-X11 server. In fact, the remote X11 client application 
does not see any difference to a "real" X11 server, when talking 
to nxagent; for the X11 client, nxagent is its X server. 

> Sessions running on a different X server cannot
> be picked up.

Not yet. But wait and see. Wait for NX-3.0.

> NX is a terminal server rather 
> than a generic remote control solution.

Maybe *currently* it is not yet the "generic remote control 
solution".

But in the long run NX is even *more* than a generic remote control 
solution. It's just that not everything that is in NX' genome is 
already fully developed and mature...