[FreeNX-kNX] Running windows apps from nxclient

[Jeremy Wilkins]

Hi Dave, after testing your patch it seems to work with a couple caveats:
1) I cannot pass any path containing backslashes or colons and a few other
characters that urlencode changes into the %nn style.  This causes the
program not to start.  The path needs to be urldecoded before it is
executed?  However if I do not include the drive letter (which requires a :)
and switch the backslashes to forward slashes it works just fine (For the
default drive whatever that may be).
2) The titlebar still shows up for the application besides the NX one.  This
may not be avoidable not to break compatibility for some apps I would guess,
but not pretty.  Maybe one of these options might help:
-A: enable SeamlessRDP mode
-D: hide window manager decorations
3) Resizing of the NX window doesn't resize the running application (may be
fixed by #2)

davefury wrote:
> 
> Jeremy, remember to remove the line
> 
> +echo $CMDLINE > /tmp/cmdlinefinal.txt
> 
> was included for debugging.
> 
> 
> Jeremy Wilkins wrote:
>> 
>> From looking at the patch it looks good so far, but I will check it for
>> more robustness shortly.
>> As for the patch itself, my only suggestion is to not mess with the
>> code's original spacing unless it necessary for adding code.  This patch
>> can be simplified.  I will work on it tonight.
>> 
>> davefury wrote:
>>> 
>>> I created a little patch which modifies desktop_helper and node. It's my
>>> first one, so any comments are welcome.
>>> 
>>>  http://www.nabble.com/file/p17202359/nxdesktop_helper.patch
>>> nxdesktop_helper.patch 
>>>  http://www.nabble.com/file/p17202359/nxnode.patch nxnode.patch 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Fabian Franz wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi there, I've just noticed that Windows Sessions work fine under NX
>>>>> Client
>>>>> 3.1. However if I choose "Run application" under "Session type" and
>>>>> try to
>>>>> launch "notepad" or "iexplore", nxclient just launchs de Windows
>>>>> Desktop,
>>>>> not the app I tried to run. Dunno if there's some kind of problem
>>>>> tying to
>>>>> pass the application to run as parameter. 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I think that is the problem.
>>>> 
>>>> I do not know the status of single seamless application mode for
>>>> rdesktop, but it might be that its just a missing parameter.
>>>> 
>>>> You might want to check this manually with rdesktop command?
>>>> 
>>>> Best Wishes,
>>>> 
>>>> Fabian
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>>>  http://www.nabble.com/file/p17202359/nxnode.patch nxnode.patch 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
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