[FreeNX-kNX] freeNX frontier and problems with 'users' and 'who' on the desktop hosts.

[Terje Andersen]

On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 14:42 +0200, Chris Fanning wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In my case I'm using gnome
> From what I can make out the reason for my problem is the same as the
> language setting problem.
> nx doesn't use gdm, so some things don't get set.
> 
Nice catch.

> As suggested on the list, I moved /usr/bin/gnome-session to gnome-session.bin
> And created a new /usr/bin/gnome-session that simply does
> #!/bin/bash
> $HOME/.gnomerc
> 
> and then the users .gnomerc
> #!/bin/bash
> export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
> export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> sudo sessreg -a -l $DISPLAY $USER
> /usr/bin/gnome-session.bin
> 
> Now 'users' and 'who' work.
> 

Thanks for the info Chris :-)

> Thanks.
> Chris.
> 
> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Chris Fanning
> <christopher.fanning at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm in the process of setting up a freeNX frontier, load balancing,
> > and two desktop hosts.
> > The problem I've got is I can't see the users logged onto the desktop
> > hosts with commands like 'users' and 'who'
> >
> > I know that if the freeNX server is on the same machine as the
> > desktop, I can add the nx user to the utmp group.
> > But this doesn't work on the desktop hosts. The nx user is only
> > available on the frontier.
> >
> > So, how should I do this. Do I need to play with sessreg?
> >
> > Any help would be a big help.
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Chris.
> >
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