[FreeNX-kNX] Running windows apps from nxclient

[Jeremy Wilkins]

I have tried every combination known (as I'm sure you have Dave) and it would
seem to be impossible without a modification of rdesktop to resolve issues 2
and 3 that I mentioned.  As for issue 1 that requires a urldecode at the run
time.
So, I snatched a snippet of url_decode for sh and found a fairly obscure
reference of one, but it works albeit a little slowly (lots of grep and sed
regexps) not that we would notice it for just one command string.  However,
I am still debugging it as we speak.  When I am finished I will post it.
Fabian, when I am finished maybe some of these patches can be applied to svn
since this is very useful code.  Also, it may be that url_decode could
benefit some of the other code in nxnode.  If so, we could improve the code
a little for performance or make better use of the regexps.


Jeremy Wilkins wrote:
> 
> Ok, I think we can make this work if we can figure a way to use the -X
> switch for embedding a window.
> 
> 
> Jeremy Wilkins wrote:
>> 
>> If I am remembering correctly there are the reasons why NX created
>> nxdesktop and nxviewer instead with special modifications to permit
>> seamless operation with their client.  Still, there should be better ways
>> to do this even with existing client technology.  Maybe the fullscreen
>> and seamless options conflict?
>> 
>> 
>> davefury wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Jeremy Wilkins wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 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).
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I experienced the same issue. Thats right, it's some kind of
>>> coding-decoding problem.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Jeremy Wilkins wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 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
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I tried it with SeamlessRDP mode and the behaviour of the windows goes
>>> nuts after resizing the window, to the point it becomes unusable.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 

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