[FreeNX-kNX] Fedora 7 issues

[Fabian Franz]

> I've had several issues with freenx.  I thought I'd post them here, and
> maybe there was an easy solution to them.  I've since then gone back to
> nomachine, but I sure would prefer more than two sessions.

I think most of those are related to 2.1.0 versus 3.0.0 issues.

cu


> 
> First, I got things working by importing /etc/nxserver/client*.key.  I'm
> going to look at the fedora howto posted yesterday and see if the ssh keys
> approach thingie is better.
> 
> So -- problems:
> 
> 
>    1. Client version mismatch.  All of the howto's I did find were for
>    version 2.1 which I was unable to find.  So, I had to use nxclient
>    version 3.0.
>    2. Font crashed nxclient server.  I'm not sure why, but my desktop X
>    server started crashing all day.  Every few hours, something would
> crash.  I
>    finally looked at the backtrace, and found that it was font related. 
> This
>    *only* happens when displaying freenx 2.1 server sessions with
>    nxclient 3.0.  !M's server does not crash the client.
>    3. Repaint issues:  sometimes the server screens would need to be
>    repainted.  Not a big deal, I just flopped to another desktop and back
>    4. Font color:  In my non-desktop session (x-chat & gaim), when
>    restoring, all the fonts would be in green.  A repaint wouldn't fix it,
> but
>    If I forced the application to redraw (switch tabs, etc), *some* of the
> font
>    color would go back to normal.
> 
> Any ideas on any of these?  The X server crashing is a big deal -- forced
> me
> to move back to !M.
> 
> -Dave
> 
> 
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