Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:03:17 -0500 From: User Ota <ota@animenfo.com> To: Jack Barnett <jackbarnett@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xclients and remote display (WAS: Re: freenx server) Message-ID: <20071222100315.GA16796@noah.ota.homelinux.net> In-Reply-To: <476CDBA0.6000506@gmail.com> References: <476BECD7.8070402@gmail.com> <20071222085935.GA16381@noah.ota.homelinux.net> <476CDBA0.6000506@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 03:40:48AM -0600, Jack Barnett wrote: > > Thanks, yea, but I don't think he's maintaining it any longer? > In ports it's version 1.4.x, but nomachine.com has latest version has > 3.5.x > My friend emailed nomachine.com and he said they refused to support > any of the xBSD or offer any help on getting a working port for the > xBSD world. > I'm guessing that is the reason why it's so out of date and broken. :/ > Are their any alternatives besides VNC? > We have that and it's working good (TightVNC tunneled though SSH), but > would like to just run one 'window' and have it displayed on our > workstation. > For example, Run an xterm on FreeBSD server and have it displayed on > an XP or Linux workstation. Not really, all I know of is FreeNX and VNC. As for their refusal, is it out of pure ignorance that they don't wish to support BSD? I thought they had at one time supported FreeBSD (the assumption is based on the fact that it exists in the ports tree). Too bad, though. I tested FreeNX on a debian install (unfortunately) and the client ran smooth on my windows machine, with the unfortunate exception that it has 0 dual-monitor support in fullscreen mode. I found this though: http://www.deweyonline.com/nx/freebsd.html Highly betting that the maintainer's page for this (if that is the maintainer) that first section looks promising. The link works to download the 6.2-RELEASE version. It's possible that might work with X.Org versions later than 7.1; I haven't personally tested it myself. Btw, which FreeBSD release are you running? Russell Doucette
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