[FreeNX-kNX] FreeNX: What is the file nxclient good for?

[Kent Schumacher]

Fabian Franz is the main developer of the free versions of NX.

Marcello Blancasio is a developer with Nomachine (I think).

This little exchange is pretty indicative of why NX needs to be forked 
and why the commercial client and free server have problems interacting...


On 07/20/2007 08:00 AM, User Support for FreeNX Server and kNX Client wrote:
> Fabian Franz wrote:
>> If we could, we would have done that a long time ago ...
>>
>> Well, it needs to be called nxclient, because nxagent is searching for that exact file in path with option dialog. I dunno why the hell they did not just call it nxdialog and then run it via nxclient ...
>>
>> Its just another one of those annoying things NX ships hardcoded with.
> 
> I don't know where on earth you found that the path of nxclient binary
> is hardcoded. Please, could you point me to the code where it is done?
> 
> The location of nxclient binary can be specified in the NX_CLIENT
> environment variable. Nothing constrains you to call it 'nxclient',
> it can be called as you like.
> 
> Every time nxagent needs to display a dialog box, it uses nxcomp
> library, that retrieves the nxclient binary location from the
> NX_CLIENT variable.
> 
> If you guys had read the code - instead of whining - as developers
> are supposed to do, you would have realized these things.
> 
> We are becoming tired of guys spreading disinformation and FUD.
> 
> Wouldn't it be better checking the facts, rather than talking about
> word of mouth?
> 
> I hope the following article will help you:
> 
> http://www.nomachine.com/ar/view.php?ar_id=AR07E00479
> 
> Best Regards.
> 
> /Marcello Blancasio.
> 
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