[FreeNX-kNX] freenx and real X-session

[Anton]

Ok. Thank You very much for full answer. I'll try to use 1.

On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:33:38 +0600
Mario Becroft <mb at gem.win.co.nz> 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.
> 
> 2. Continue to run X locally as you are now, and use some special
> software to mirror the display remotely. The easiest way to do this is
> probably with a tool called "x11vnc" (google it). In theory nx's session
> shadowing feature could be used for this, but it does not provide a way
> of actually doing this as normally configured. The only problem is,
> x11vnc is not particularly fast due to the way it works.
> 
> 3. The third way is actually the same as 2., but if you are using Xorg
> as your local X server, there is a module directly providing a VNC
> server mirroring your local screen. This works like 2., but will be a
> bit faster. You could look up on the web how to configure this feature.
> 
> When using option 2 (or 3) you can use nxclient to login to the VNC
> session--but it would probably be just as good to simply use vncviewer
> for this (the main benefit of nx here is that it would provide
> encryption which is not normally available with vnc).
> 
> If you want good performance when accessing remotely, I suggest option
> 1. But if you just occasionally need to access the session remotely and
> performance does not matter so much, then option 2 might be the best.
> 
> -- 
> Mario Becroft <mb at gem.win.co.nz>


-- 
Anton [WARM-RIPE]
Stack ltd division head
tel. 8 (3822) 555-797