[FreeNX-kNX] freenx and real X-session

[Simon Gao]

On Thursday 29 January 2009 20:33:38 Mario Becroft wrote:
> Anton <warm at stack.ru> writes:
> > Good day.
> >
> > I suspect that my question was asked many times befor but I could not to
> > find any answer at google.
> >
> > I have real X-session in my work desktop (gdm to login + icewm). I lock
> > my desktop by the xlockmore and go home. At home I try to connect to my
> > work desktop by nxclient. Always I get new session or suspend this new
> > session and then I can detouch it back. But I want to get into my real
> > X-session is it possable ? How ?
> >
> > I tried to use shadowing but it does not work or it is not what I want. I
> > find at google and docs that I should use KDE or Gnome to get their
> > session detouched but I do not want use this heavy DE :-). I need to use
> > my usual desktop enveroment.
>
> When you use nx, you either create a virtual display that you login to,
> or you directly run an application. In both cases, this has nothing to
> do with any existing X server that might be running on your machine, and
> so will be completely irrelevant for accessing your existing session
> running locally on the machine.
>
> There are two ways you could achieve what you want:
>
> 1. When locally on your machine, always run nxclient and login to a nx
> session instead of directly using the X display on the machine. Then you
> can login to this same nx session remotely.
>

Can you give more details on this? When you leave office, do you leave the NX 
session running?