[FreeNX-kNX] Volunteers are rare in FOSS -- "consumers" are abound! [was: "NX as a second connection to live sessions?"]

[Kurt Pfeifle]

On Monday 27 March 2006 20:51, Tiago Mikhael Pastorello Freire wrote:

> > You could start running your local session as an NX session, where
> > you simply connect NX Client to your client machine's IP address
> > (which needs FreeNX or NoMachine NX server installed, of course).
> > In other words (to make it overly clear): your one machine is NX
> > server to its own NX client.
> 
> I didn't know this was possible! how exactly can I 'take over' a running 
> session? Is there a wiki article for this (hint, hint)?

It does so automatically (with the latest snapshot -- before, there
was a bug that does not make this work reliably. Search this month's
list archives for the descriptions of the various snapshots, and their
download locations).

If the session name requested from your second client is named exactly 
like the original (currently running) one, the takeover happens without 
asking. 

If the session requested has a different name, a dialog pops up showing
you the running sessions, asking if you want to "resume" one of these,
"termininate" one (or more), or start a "new" one.

Pretty straightforward.

Put it into the Wiki yourself (hint, hint, hint!).

----

And now, dudes and dudettes, for something different (but related):

If only 10% who ever got helped with his/her problem here would have
taken the time to sit down and write up one paragraph in the Wiki/FAQ 
(with problem description and solution), the wiki and the FAQ would be
10 times the size.

However, sad reality is that most people who got a well running system
(after their initial problems) for free never bother to contribute back
some of their own time and effort.

Everyone seems to be expecting to be "served", and even thinks he has
an entitlement to this.

We (the FreeNX team) just don't have enough time for all this. And we
have other lifes as well than just FreeNX.

Thank you for your understanding.

Kurt