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["Clement Hermann (nodens)" <clement.hermann@xxxxxxx>]

Endolith a écrit :
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 8:18 AM, nodens <clement.hermann@xxxxxxx 
> <mailto:clement.hermann@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     I'm trying to use freenx as I would use microsoft's RDP : I would
>     like to connect to a local session using session shadowing.
>
>
> So you can log into the machine locally, and then control the session 
> remotely through NX?  Would it behave exactly like VNC with the local 
> user seeing their mouse move around, etc?  That would be very useful; 
> I didn't know NX could do that.
It does. It's called session sharing or session shadowing. If you ask 
the session of another user, it will ask the user to accept or refuse 
the session, and there is a system of acl (handled by the nxshadowacl 
script in FreeNX) that permit to control who should be able to shadow 
other users' sessions.
> It seems that when I log in over NX when there is already a Gnome 
> session running, it screws up the session configuration and a bunch of 
> things crash, anyway.  So I would prefer to recycle the same session 
> as much as possible.
It goes better with latest Gnome version. The panel etc behave properly. 
But many softs don't like to be launched several times : firefox, 
thunderbird and all mozilla tools, IM software (gajim), etc.

I won't use session shadowing when I can help it unless I can find a 
good work around the problems I described in my previous message 
(resolution change and/or fullscreen, disabling Compiz...)

if I could shadow and run at once a script on the remote session to 
toggle the NX mode automatically it would be OK, but right now it is a 
bit more painful than remembering to close my session when I leave.

Regards,


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