[FreeNX-kNX] Sabayon/xnest and FreeNX

Thu Jun 10 13:40:35 UTC 2010

Hi Olaf:

Just my 2 cents... bellow

> a simpler window manager IceWM or LXDE, 

But then I had to configure the desktops too (!?)

In this case you could edit what options the menu will offer...
i.e. Mozilla chat client etc...

> or 
> running your applications rootless, 
> which means they just appear as applications on the user's desktop. 

You could setup each client connection to offer this ONLY particular
application
Please recheck clients options... you will find:

Configure -- settings -- Run the following command ... on this box you will
put Your_OWN_APP 

Or alternative if you decide to use  IceWM or LXDE one of this WM

Hope this helps...

Reagards

Carlos

olaf-linux at gmx.de wrote:
> 
> Hi Chris!
> 
> Am Donnerstag, den 03.06.2010, 10:54 +0100 schrieb chris at ccburton.com:
>> I haven't looked at either Kiosk Admin Tool or Sabayon, and I doubt
>> that 
>> anyone else subscribed to this group has either, at least not with
>> NX. 
> 
> And how do they configure the desktops (gnome, kde, ..) for their users?
> You are talking about optimizing the sessions for speed, quality and so
> on a few days before (I do not understand all of your conversation), I
> do not understand how it is possible to optimize speed/quality without
> the possibility to configure the user-settings of the desktop.
> 
>> In theory, all of these things you are trying should work with the NX
>> X server 
>> proxy, but until someone has been through and ironed out any issues 
>> (which may be small ones or show-stoppers) then you are not advised
>> to 
>> use them on a live server, unless you are prepared to work it out for 
>> yourself. 
> 
> Yes, because of this I'm thinking about giving up the project of using
> freeNX/thinClients.
> I have spend money (a new server) and a lot of time in this in the last
> months, but without the possibility to set the users configurations I
> see no chance for me to use the system.
> 
>> 
>> In addition, you have chosed Opensuse 11.2, which is far from the
>> most 
>> popular distribution, and is more "experimental / cutting edge" than
>> it 
>> is an enterprise product. 
>> 
>> 
>> You may well like the more advanced features ( me too, that's why I
>> deploy 
>> it in certain circumstances ), but you will find more help available
>> for 
>> Ubuntu, which has versions (still free) with long term support 
> 
> Because of the much greater community-support of ubuntu I'm thinking
> about changing to it the last weeks, but if I will do so I has to build
> the hole LDAP-Server by myself (OpenSuse -> Yast -> LDAP -> ready to
> start config, ready to use with my "egroupware"), and that's beyond my
> knowledge. So I'm still using openSuse with great simple LDAP-config.
> 
>> If your users don't need a full desktop, you should consider (in the 
>> absence of Kiosk or Sabayon working out-of-the-box) 
>> either 
>> a simpler window manager IceWM or LXDE, 
> 
> But then I had to configure the desktops too (!?)
> 
>> or 
>> running your applications rootless, 
>> which means they just appear as applications on the user's desktop. 
> 
> I do not understand that. I have to try to find something about this
> with google.
> 
>> You should also look through the nomachine knowledge-base. 
> 
> I have done so and found an (one) article about sabayon and nomachine,
> but with an other topic.
> 
>> I'm still planning to have a look at the samba issue you asked about, 
> ...
>> One thing you didn't say was whether you have moved up to NX v3.4.0 
>> on your Suse machines, or you are still on 3.2 from the Opensuse 
>> community repositories. 
>> 
>> You won't illicit much help if people think you are on an older
>> version. 
>> 
>> I sent you the script to roll an rpm of 3.4 but you might not have
>> received 
> 
> Sorry, I had not see it, there are too many mails day by day. 
> I have take a look at it now. Thank you.
> My problem: every time I try to compile myself / don't using
> yast/zypper, anything went wrong and I had to spend many evenings to get
> the things working again, so I'm not sure if it is a good idea for me to
> try this with my working freeNX.
> At the moment FreeNX is working, I'm stucking in other problems
> (restricted user accounts, no usb-sticks/printers) and the possibility
> to crash the hole FreeNX by compiling a newer version is not good for my
> motivation at the moment ;-(
> If the other things will work, I think I will be brave again to try a
> newer version.
> 
> Chris, thank you for your long mail with good descriptions.
> 
> Bye
> Olaf
> 
> 
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