[FreeNX-kNX] Ubuntu PPA Feedback

Wed Mar 5 18:57:08 UTC 2014

This week I had some time to take another look at FreeNX on Trusty.

The gnome flashback situation seems worse.

But, just discovered that mate desktop is working ok.
The only problem is that resizing nx client don’t resize the desktop.
http://mate-desktop.org

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/ubuntu saucy main”
sudo apt-get install mate-core

Custom command "mate-session” as a new virtual desktop.

For now it’s the winner for me.

Em 21 de fevereiro de 2014 at 08:45:37 PM, Ryan Tandy (rtandy at sd63.bc.ca) escreveu:
This afternoon I've briefly tried freenx under trusty, and generally 
reproduced your results. 

Of course unity doesn't work, because of no composite under FreeNX. I 
guess there's no way to get it to use software rendering, like a 
physical system without working 3D does? I suppose that still depends on 
composite support from the X server... and anyway, from what I've heard 
from VirtualBox users it's not really usable. 
3D for FreeNX is not an option. It’s a fork of Xorg 6.99.??!!!

It’s ancient.

On 14-02-21 04:49 AM, Marcelo Boveto Shima wrote: 
> Right now gnome-fallback doesn’t work on trusty because of a requirement 
> test. 
> I removed the test and it started. I will try to figure out will they 
> are requiring 
> composite for the fallback. Maybe because they rely on compiz/unity for 
> background. 

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/trusty/gnome-session/trusty/view/head:/gnome-session/main.c#L299 

I think it's there because of gnome-shell, since fallback isn't 
supported upstream any more. A conditional hack to skip it for certain 
sessions might be OK. A real solution would be for the session file to 
indicate whether or not acceleration is required but I doubt upstream 
will be interested in that. 
Fallback was never a Gnome feature, it was a debian/ubuntu hack.

Only last year they introduced the FlashBack project but isn’t upstream either,.
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-flashback-list/2013-September/msg00006.html
For reference:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=730495
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/1251281

Maybe they are interested.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeFlashback.

On the freenx-server Depends, I suggest removing "gnome-session" (now it 
implies a gnome-shell session), and changing "gnome-session-fallback" to 
"gnome-session-flashback" (following upstream's rename). 

What does freenx-server use consolekit for, if it's installed? Is it 
feasible to update it to use the systemd interfaces instead? Even though 
consolekit is still in the archive I don't really expect to do anything 
useful today for a GNOME (even fallback) or Unity session. 
At that time, I’ve made a script to set the ConsoleKit session as local to allow

PolicyKit to work with remote sessions (freenx-session-launcher).

Removed.

I can't put much time into this, but I'll play with it from time to time 
when I can. 
Me neither.

-- 
Ryan Tandy - Programmer/Analyst rtandy at sd63.bc.ca 
School District 63 (Saanich) +1 250 652 7385 

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