Re: [gentoo-user] nomachine -- nxserver-freenx
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 12:30 AM, Matthew Marlowe m...@professionalsysadmin.com wrote: Client-side rendering works just fine with NX (including x2go). You just have to watch your screen paint every time you scroll an application like chrome that uses it. Instead of sending the text your X client sends NX an image, just like VNC. I thought the NX 4.0 packages (free and commercial) have a runtime option to run either in 1) VNC type mode (default) or 2) light-mode (optimized for desktop and non graphics intensive). This was discussed in one of the nomachine hosted forums. I'm not sure what the point would be in basically paying for VNC. The whole point of NX is that it modifies the X protocol so that there is less back-and-forth between the local server and remote clients by acting as a local client to the server and a remote server to the clients. But, when clients are just sending huge blobs of images, all it can do is transmit them. -- Rich
Re: [gentoo-user] nomachine -- nxserver-freenx
Client-side rendering works just fine with NX (including x2go). You just have to watch your screen paint every time you scroll an application like chrome that uses it. Instead of sending the text your X client sends NX an image, just like VNC. I thought the NX 4.0 packages (free and commercial) have a runtime option to run either in 1) VNC type mode (default) or 2) light-mode (optimized for desktop and non graphics intensive). This was discussed in one of the nomachine hosted forums. I'm homeschooling my kids and wanted to give them access to mathematica/system modeler/and the full set of interesting apps installed here on the home gentoo server. I did end up purchasing the 4-user linux terminal server option here for only roughly $125/yr. I tested x2go first and while it performed fine for a single app but had too many issues in desktop mode or with overall usability.
Re: [gentoo-user] nomachine -- nxserver-freenx
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: How does it work: client-side-rendering. Is there a solution on Gentoo. Client-side rendering works just fine with NX (including x2go). You just have to watch your screen paint every time you scroll an application like chrome that uses it. Instead of sending the text your X client sends NX an image, just like VNC. So, NX with client-side rendering works just like VNC, which makes it horrible over a WAN. However, it still works. -- Rich
Re: [gentoo-user] nomachine -- nxserver-freenx
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 10:15 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I'm still using nxserver-freenx and nxclient they are working OK with XFCE and they are still valid packages. Does it mean, they might be pulled out of gentoo packages? Is x2go stable on XFCE4? I've had my share of issues with both. I doubt that anybody is going to get rid of nx just to do it. However, it has been fairly dead upstream and that probably means all the usual kinds of issues (maybe some dependency update will break it, etc). If I were still actively using it I'd be looking for alternatives, though to be honest there aren't really many out there. It seems like everybody has been moving more and more towards things like client-side-rendering, hardware acceleration, and so on. The experience on NX was slowly becoming a lot more like VNC anyway. -- Rich
Re: [gentoo-user] nomachine -- nxserver-freenx
On 02/10/15 09:07, Rich Freeman wrote: On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 10:15 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I'm still using nxserver-freenx and nxclient they are working OK with XFCE and they are still valid packages. Does it mean, they might be pulled out of gentoo packages? Is x2go stable on XFCE4? I've had my share of issues with both. I doubt that anybody is going to get rid of nx just to do it. However, it has been fairly dead upstream and that probably means all the usual kinds of issues (maybe some dependency update will break it, etc). If I were still actively using it I'd be looking for alternatives, though to be honest there aren't really many out there. It seems like everybody has been moving more and more towards things like client-side-rendering, hardware acceleration, and so on. The experience on NX was slowly becoming a lot more like VNC anyway. How does it work: client-side-rendering. Is there a solution on Gentoo. For me nxserver-freenx still works perfectly on Gentoo but I couldn't get nxclient to work on xubuntu. -- Joseph
Re: [gentoo-user] nomachine -- nxserver-freenx
When I was using it back in ~2008, it was working. However, freenx seems to be an abandoned project, no update since 2008 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenx.berlios/files/?source=navbar). ArchWiki suggests to use x2go instead (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/FreeNX). 2015-02-10 10:49 GMT+08:00 Joseph syscon...@gmail.com: Will nomachine talk to nxserver-freenx I've installed nxserver-freenx on Gentoo but on the other end I have nomachine running on ubuntu. I couldn't find/install freenx on ubuntu. -- Joseph
Re: [gentoo-user] nomachine -- nxserver-freenx
On 02/10/15 11:01, Guillaume Poulin wrote: When I was using it back in ~2008, it was working. However, freenx seems to be an abandoned project, no update since 2008 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenx.berlios/files/?source=navbar). ArchWiki suggests to use x2go instead (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/FreeNX). 2015-02-10 10:49 GMT+08:00 Joseph syscon...@gmail.com: Will nomachine talk to nxserver-freenx I've installed nxserver-freenx on Gentoo but on the other end I have nomachine running on ubuntu. I couldn't find/install freenx on ubuntu. I'm still using nxserver-freenx and nxclient they are working OK with XFCE and they are still valid packages. Does it mean, they might be pulled out of gentoo packages? Is x2go stable on XFCE4? -- Joseph
