We have created a new version of freenx (freenx-0.5.0-8.c4.noarch.rpm) and moved it to the testing repo. This is based on the code displayed at the LWE in San Francisco ... http://lwn.net/Articles/146825/ http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8489 (though it is not officially released as stable by the freenx people) This version should handle printing and reconnecting to running sessions much better. Running sessions (on the nx server, that is the machine you are connecting to) are stored in "/var/lib/nxserver/db/running" ... if you have been disconnected in the past, there may be several old sessions out there that need to be cleaned up ... go remove the sessions that are invalid (all of them in that directory if you do not have any open sessions to that server). There is no real auto cleanup of these if your session breaks ... I will try to develop something that works later. In the meantime, if you session list is to big and some are dead, you will have to delete them manually. This version also allows rootless mode, which is faster compression. So far, this is a major improvement to my user experience for NX. ------------------ Copy the testing CentOS-Testing.repo file from here: http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/ to /etc/yum.repos.d/ , then use this command to install freenx: yum --enablerepo=c4-testing install freenx nx Report issues with this to the freeenx tracker here: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1307 ------------------- A guide for setting up the NoMachine client (to connect to the freenx server, if you installed it) is here: http://fedoranews.org/contributors/rick_stout/freenx/ (you only need to do the client items, as the server is taken care of with the above yum install). Thanks, Johnny Hughes -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060414/384b327c/attachment-0001.sig>
On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 07:39 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:> We have created a new version of freenx (freenx-0.5.0-8.c4.noarch.rpm) > and moved it to the testing repo. > > This is based on the code displayed at the LWE in San Francisco ... > > http://lwn.net/Articles/146825/ > > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8489 > > (though it is not officially released as stable by the freenx people) > > This version should handle printing and reconnecting to running sessions > much better. > > Running sessions (on the nx server, that is the machine you are > connecting to) are stored in "/var/lib/nxserver/db/running" ... if you > have been disconnected in the past, there may be several old sessions > out there that need to be cleaned up ... go remove the sessions that are > invalid (all of them in that directory if you do not have any open > sessions to that server). There is no real auto cleanup of these if > your session breaks ... I will try to develop something that works > later. In the meantime, if you session list is to big and some are dead, > you will have to delete them manually. > > This version also allows rootless mode, which is faster compression. > > So far, this is a major improvement to my user experience for NX. > > ------------------ > Copy the testing CentOS-Testing.repo file from here: > > http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/ > > to /etc/yum.repos.d/ , then use this command to install freenx: > > yum --enablerepo=c4-testing install freenx nx > > Report issues with this to the freeenx tracker here: > > http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1307 > > ------------------- > A guide for setting up the NoMachine client (to connect to the freenx > server, if you installed it) is here: > > http://fedoranews.org/contributors/rick_stout/freenx/ > > (you only need to do the client items, as the server is taken care of > with the above yum install).---- fwiw - I just downloaded and installed last night so I don't have much history to report but I did install freenx-0.5.0-8 last night, rebooted, deleted all the old sessions and connected and worked fine until earlier today when I lost power on my home system (the remote). I fired back up and resumed the session without issue and I am very happy about that as that was one of the issues (resuming sessions) so in that regard, any improvement is appreciated. Also, I no longer get the errors on login which I am sure were caused by my trying to use remote cups but I haven't read a thing about configuration so the errors are gone but it's obvious that cups doesn't automatically configure remote printers ;-( so I will probably have to read up on this to see if I have a chance to print on my home printer from the remote freenx server. Things definitely 'seem' better anyway Thanks Craig
On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 07:39 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:> We have created a new version of freenx (freenx-0.5.0-8.c4.noarch.rpm) > and moved it to the testing repo. > > This is based on the code displayed at the LWE in San Francisco ... > > http://lwn.net/Articles/146825/ > > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8489 > > (though it is not officially released as stable by the freenx people) > > This version should handle printing and reconnecting to running sessions > much better. > > Running sessions (on the nx server, that is the machine you are > connecting to) are stored in "/var/lib/nxserver/db/running" ... if you > have been disconnected in the past, there may be several old sessions > out there that need to be cleaned up ... go remove the sessions that are > invalid (all of them in that directory if you do not have any open > sessions to that server). There is no real auto cleanup of these if > your session breaks ... I will try to develop something that works > later. In the meantime, if you session list is to big and some are dead, > you will have to delete them manually. > > This version also allows rootless mode, which is faster compression. > > So far, this is a major improvement to my user experience for NX. > > ------------------ > Copy the testing CentOS-Testing.repo file from here: > > http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/ > > to /etc/yum.repos.d/ , then use this command to install freenx: > > yum --enablerepo=c4-testing install freenx nx > > Report issues with this to the freeenx tracker here: > > http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1307 > > ------------------- > A guide for setting up the NoMachine client (to connect to the freenx > server, if you installed it) is here: > > http://fedoranews.org/contributors/rick_stout/freenx/ > > (you only need to do the client items, as the server is taken care of > with the above yum install).---- further feedback...the resume sessions has been working perfectly including several unavoidable interruptions (undoubtedly caused by flaky Internet connection at other end). I would say that it's very worthwhile upgrade. Craig
Maciej Żenczykowski
2006-Apr-27 20:53 UTC
[CentOS] freenx-0.5.0-8.c4.noarch.rpm is in testing
Hi,> We have created a new version of freenx (freenx-0.5.0-8.c4.noarch.rpm) > and moved it to the testing repo.I installed the freenx rpm (via yum --enablerepo ... update freenx) and unfortunately it overwrote the /var/lib/nxserver/home/.ssh/authorized_keys2 file with it's own copy without making a backup. Very bad, especially considering I had around 200 keys in mine (I did have a backup, but still). Everything else appears to be working well, I'm not yet sure how stable it is and how well suspend/resume work but I'll report back on any problems... Cheers, MaZe.