[FreeNX-kNX] View-only, web-based NX viewer/client for Linux screen-sharing, presentations?

[Yang Zhang]

Thanks for the pointers.

Sounds like opportunity's ripe for a web-based NX viewer/client like
noVNC.  Would certainly beat the pants off noVNC in performance.  If
only I had more hours....

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 2:12 AM,  <chris at ccburton.com> wrote:
>
> freenx-knx-bounces at kde.org wrote on 05/11/2012 23:50:18:
>
>
>> I currently share my screen for presentations using VNC, since it's
>> easy to share with anyone who has little more than a web browser with
>> noVNC.
>>
>> Is there a similar viewer (HTML5, Flash, or - as a last resort - Java)
>
> If you want data compression to the workstation
> you
> need something installed andrunning on the workstation
> to de-compress the data stream.
>
> If you have a
>
>          web server handy
>
> you can use the nomachine java client-downloader
>
>         http://www.nomachine.com/download-package.php?Prod_Id=3857
>
>         http://www.nomachine.com/documents/plugin/install.html
>
> to install the "NX Web Companion" which is a java applet called
> nxplugin,
> which installs the (client OS appropriate) nx client onto
> the workstation
> and
> runs an NX session "without Administrator intervention" ( Hmmmmm )
>
> tho
> you may confuse your users a little,
> and
> if any of them are doing the right thing
>         not using an admin account
>         not allowing anything downloaded to be executed
> you may find they can't run that installation
>         (tho I haven't tested that, co I don't use it)
>
>
> You may also like to note that you will need to run your
> "presentations" "on" an NX server, to do the compression
> at the other end, so you will need to set that up somewhere
>
> tho
>
> you can "point" your NX server at the vnc server(s)
> running on your demonstrator's workstation(s)
> by
> setting up such a session in the client, and the
> vnc (client) will be Xed and then NXed etc
> so
> that may be useful to you.
>
>
> One NX server will run any number of such "presentations"
> sessions at the same time, independently (rescource dependent).
>
>
> For my twopenn'oth I guess it is easier to stick with java/vnc
> but
> I guess it will depend on how many you do . . . .
>
>
> Let us know how you get on tho . . . .  . . . .
>
>
>
>> that uses the faster NX protocol? The only NX clients I can find today
>> are "full" clients, which require a download/install and have no
>> view-only mode.
>>
>> Also posted here in case you want some StackExchange cred:
>>
>> http://superuser.com/questions/497425/view-only-web-based-nx-viewer-
>> client-for-slick-linux-screen-sharing-presentati
>>
>> Thanks!
>
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