Ondrej- First off, heh, I didn't even notice that I had auth turned off... Good catch. When I do new screen scripts, every now and the Xauth gets in the way, so I usually disable it at some point in time.
Meanwhile, I took it out and it worked just fine for me. Keep in mind that whether its in or out, twm doesn't start until after the first login screen (ie, when nxclient makes the initial connection). "Why?", you ask? I'll tell you... For whatever reason, the nxclient executable is designed to fork nxssh and friends and then die. This makes it a tad annoying to call from xinit, as when xinit's script dies, X dies. When you write an xinit script, you usually background a bunch of executables and leave the last one running in the foreground. The last one should be a program that doesn't die. Well, since in this case, the choice cannot be nxclient, it must be twm. So, if you look in usr/bin/startnx, you will see twm running in the foreground at the end. Now, you will also notice that nxclient is running in the foreground, as well. This is because when you run nxclient in the background, it seems to not like to get keyboard focus anymore after a session ends and it comes back to a login. So, that's why I left it in the foreground, which means that twm doesn't actually get called until after nxclient dies, which is after the login screen when it forks off nxssh. Whew. Does that make sense? I 'sppose I could have done like you suggest and background xinit and run twm out of the screen.d script, but, a) I didnt think of it and b) I prolly would have forgotten at some point where twm was running from :) Cheers, -Gadi On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 15:56 +0200, Ondrej Valousek wrote: > Hi Gadi, > > Just one more problem that I have experienced: > I see that you are running Xserver with the -ac option that disables > security - I think it is very dangerous thing so I have removed it and > enabled the xauth command in the /usr/bin/startnx. > > After I did that I had serious problems to start twm - it refused to start. > > so eventually I had to amend the /etc/screen.d/startnx command so > 1. the xinit command at the end is backgrounded > 2. I added 2 more lines at the end of the file: > export XAUTHORITY=/tmp/some_magic > /usr/X11R6/bin/twm -display unix:0.0 > > I do not know why, but it works (maybe if we just create .xinitrc, it > would run as well) > > Ondrej > > > Gideon Romm wrote: > > Also, here's an "rdesktop.wrapper" script that you can replace your > > existing /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/bin/rdesktop.wrapper with, if you want twm > > to run for your rdesktop session. > > > > I didn't notice rdesktop to be any faster, but I'll take your word for > > it. > > > > Enjoy! > > > > -Gadi > > > > On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 18:19 +0200, Ondrej Valousek wrote: > > > >> Hi Gadi, > >> > >> I am just staring at your NX startup scripts... I just do not > >> understand... How do you actually start up the twm? The only difference > >> I could see is that you build the .twmrc file in home directory. But my > >> understanding was, that you need to build .xinitrc as well and place twm > >> at the bottom of it in order to have it started... > >> Maybe I have missed something... > >> > >> But anyway - what I observe is: > >> 1. There are no window decorations so you can not move/resize windows > >> (like nxclient logon window). This capability could be important if you > >> decide not to nxstart the whole desktop but just a one application in > >> floating window - consider. > >> 2. Everything else that was not working before (key repetition, keyboard > >> layout switching) works like charm now - perfect! > >> > >> Regards, > >> Ondrej > >> > >> Gideon Romm wrote: > >> > >>> Ondrej, et al- > >>> > >>> I just uploaded an update NX_LTSP pkg to sourceforge. It uses the > >>> newest nxclient (1.5.0-141) and twm for a window manager. Can you play > >>> with it and see if it is better/worse than before? :) > >>> > >>> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/symbiont/NX1.5.0-141_LTSP_0.8.tgz?download > >>> > >>> -Gadi > >>> > >>> On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 11:32 +0200, Ondrej Valousek wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>> Hi all, > >>>> > >>>> I have submitted a support inquiry to Nomachine about this issue and > >>>> they have just released the nxagent that fixes this problem. > >>>> Not sure if it is any worth for the FreeNX users, though. > >>>> > >>>> My opinion is that we should have some at least minimalistic window > >>>> manager in LTSP - not only because of nxclient. > >>>> I have found out, that for example rdesktop is MUCH faster when running > >>>> from within the WM. > >>>> > >>>> I see that thinstation already has some WM - perhaps we could get it > >>>> from there? > >>>> > >>>> Thanks, > >>>> Ondrej > >>>> > >>>> Basil Stotz wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>> Hello list > >>>>> > >>>>> I have the same issue (also with thinstation): The strange thing is, > >>>>> that > >>>>> keyboard repeat works with a supended session which is resumed, even > >>>>> without > >>>>> wm! > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>>>>>> I have the same problem with holding down a key. I am running the > >>>>>>>>> nxclient on Thinstation so it may not be Gideon's package. I have > >>>>>>>>> not > >>>>>>>>> taken the time to research the issue. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Start Thinstation in a desktop (either blackbox or icewm). The key > >>>>>>>> repeat only seems to work when Thinstation is started with a window > >>>>>>>> manager. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > >>>>> Basil > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> ------------------------------------------------------- > >>>>> Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, > >>>>> security? > >>>>> Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job > >>>>> easier > >>>>> Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache > >>>>> Geronimo > >>>>> http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > >>>>> _____________________________________________________________________ > >>>>> Ltsp-discuss mailing list. 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