[FreeNX-kNX] VNC over NX: Possible with freeNX when freeNX-Server = VNC-Server?

[Bastian Kames]

I had the same problem. before you can connect to a other user on the same 
system with VNC the user must press CTRL-ALT-S to enter the slow mode.

Same Problem with ksnapshot



Am Mittwoch, 9. Mai 2007 20:40 schrieb Johannes Kastl:
> Hello,
>
> apparently my way of using NX (or wishing to use it) is not that
> usual, but as far as I understood it should be possible:
>
> I want to get a VNC-Session via NX, where the freeNX-Server is the
> same machine where the VNC-Session is "hosted".
>
> INTERNET------>------------ROUTER---->-------freeNX-Server->|
>                                                     ^       |
>
>                                                     |__VNC__|
>
> I can connect to my NX server either via ssh nx at NXSERVER or via nxclient.
>
> I can then start KDE,..., but I would like to watch the normal
> desktop, which is released (? "freigegeben" in german) via xorg.conf's
> VNC (comfortable via sax2 on my openSUSE 10.2).
>
> So I thought I just add the IP of the freeNX-server=VNC-Server into
> the filed, choose display 0 and enter the password. SSL-Encryption is
> enabled.
>
> Then I get a black window. And nothing else.
>
> If I use another port, or enter a wrong password, I get an error
> message, so I assume I entered everything right in the first place.
>
> So, why the black window? Is it
>
> - a bug in NX
> - a feature?
> - a feature of nomachine's NXserver
> - not possible at all
>
> that I cannot connect to VNC on the same host?
>
> Thanks,
> OJ
>
> P.S.: If you need any more information just ask, I was not sure
> if/what I should have given ..