[FreeNX-kNX] Running windows apps from nxclient

[Jeremy Wilkins]

I know I have posted a lot, but here it is.  Two unified patches one Debian,
one non-Debian
http://www.nabble.com/file/p17242601/nxdesktop_rootless_fix.patch
nxdesktop_rootless_fix.patch 
http://www.nabble.com/file/p17242601/04_nxdesktop_rootless_fix.dpatch
04_nxdesktop_rootless_fix.dpatch 
Please review them and let me know if it works well.  It was near hell
getting the Windows backslash paths and (strangely) spaces to conform, but I
hope it works for you.  So item 1 is fixed.  Any takers on 2 and 3?


Jeremy Wilkins wrote:
> 
> 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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