What version of nxcompext were you installing?
The only problem I am having (so far) with x2go is relatively minor, and I expect it is solvable. Somehow xorg and/or gnome is not reading the locale properly when I start a session from the windows x2go client, and locale is defaulting to POSIX/C, even though I have it set in rc.conf to en_US.UTF-8, and /etc/profile.d/locale.sh has "export LANG=en_US.UTF-8". I can set it with LANG in my .bashrc, but that does not propagate it to the gnome environment, so, for example, gnome-terminal defaults to "ANSIX3.4-1968" character encoding. x2go seems to start gnome-session with x2goagent, and I am not sure where it looks for the locale.
]]>But then I would need to be able to change bootorder in bios ..
Most machines nowadays have a "boot menu" option. With a press of a button you get into the menu where you select the stick, otherwise the machine boots as usual.
]]>Nielskep wrote:Gusar wrote:Th proper way to stream a movie is to stream the file over and have it play on the local machine. You could simply mount a samba share or use sshfs for that, or set up something more elaborate like a media server with UPnP and all that stuff.
Otherwise I'll go with the others when they say NX is some black magic voodoo to set up, while VNC is pretty much the epitome of simplicity. Especially when you want to have a Windows client on an USB stick. Try that with NX. vncviewer on the other hand, is a single binary that you copy onto the stick and then simply run.
I know the proper way, using mediatomb I am already playing movies on my ps3.
But sometimes I am abroad only carrying my company windows-only laptop without administrator.
As I don't want to install a lot of non-company software on that laptop (wherever that's possible) I wanted to execute almost everything on my desktop at home and use the laptop as a kind of "end-node".. Yesterday I was testing the possibility of watching a movie (only using local wireless lan) using freenx and got a little disappointed by the speed.your best solution is to install and boot from a usb stick.
But then I would need to be able to change bootorder in bios ..
]]>Gusar wrote:Nielskep wrote:Is there any remote desktop solution which is fast enough to stream movie over local LAN?
Th proper way to stream a movie is to stream the file over and have it play on the local machine. You could simply mount a samba share or use sshfs for that, or set up something more elaborate like a media server with UPnP and all that stuff.
Otherwise I'll go with the others when they say NX is some black magic voodoo to set up, while VNC is pretty much the epitome of simplicity. Especially when you want to have a Windows client on an USB stick. Try that with NX. vncviewer on the other hand, is a single binary that you copy onto the stick and then simply run.
I know the proper way, using mediatomb I am already playing movies on my ps3.
But sometimes I am abroad only carrying my company windows-only laptop without administrator.
As I don't want to install a lot of non-company software on that laptop (wherever that's possible) I wanted to execute almost everything on my desktop at home and use the laptop as a kind of "end-node".. Yesterday I was testing the possibility of watching a movie (only using local wireless lan) using freenx and got a little disappointed by the speed.
your best solution is to install and boot from a usb stick.
]]>Nielskep wrote:Is there any remote desktop solution which is fast enough to stream movie over local LAN?
Th proper way to stream a movie is to stream the file over and have it play on the local machine. You could simply mount a samba share or use sshfs for that, or set up something more elaborate like a media server with UPnP and all that stuff.
Otherwise I'll go with the others when they say NX is some black magic voodoo to set up, while VNC is pretty much the epitome of simplicity. Especially when you want to have a Windows client on an USB stick. Try that with NX. vncviewer on the other hand, is a single binary that you copy onto the stick and then simply run.
I know the proper way, using mediatomb I am already playing movies on my ps3.
But sometimes I am abroad only carrying my company windows-only laptop without administrator.
As I don't want to install a lot of non-company software on that laptop (wherever that's possible) I wanted to execute almost everything on my desktop at home and use the laptop as a kind of "end-node".. Yesterday I was testing the possibility of watching a movie (only using local wireless lan) using freenx and got a little disappointed by the speed.
Is there any remote desktop solution which is fast enough to stream movie over local LAN?
Th proper way to stream a movie is to stream the file over and have it play on the local machine. You could simply mount a samba share or use sshfs for that, or set up something more elaborate like a media server with UPnP and all that stuff.
Otherwise I'll go with the others when they say NX is some black magic voodoo to set up, while VNC is pretty much the epitome of simplicity. Especially when you want to have a Windows client on an USB stick. Try that with NX. vncviewer on the other hand, is a single binary that you copy onto the stick and then simply run.
]]>(P.S. freenx movie play was slow (like 5-10fps))
]]>VNC isn't really an option, both due to poor latency/performance, as well as not supporting things like multiple sessions, session shadowing etc.
Cheers,
Victor
Really? As far as I know, vnc is still the 'proven technology' for remote remote desktop. Have you tried Tigervnc ? Performance is more than well enough for me.
In fact, it's designed to perform well over low bandwidth connections.
And you can start as many vnc sessions as you want, why do you think there is no multiple session support ?
I'm trying to find a working remote-desktop solution for Arch Linux.
The first one I tried was neatx. I remember setting this up to be a fairly seamless affair in Ubuntu/Debian. However, the neatx package in Arch Linux appears to be broken:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=842046
I then decided to try x2go (http://www.x2go.org/index.php?id=1&L=5), which is apparently meant to be fairly seamless, and more actively developed.
It's not in the Arch Linux repositories, but is in AUR.
However, it depends on nxcompext (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18024), which doesn't appear to compile cleanly on my system at least, giving me an error:
NXlib.c:4712:3: warning: dereferencing 'void *' pointer
NXlib.c:4712:3: error: request for member 'synchandler' in something not a structure or union
NXlib.c: In function 'NXFlushDisplay':
NXlib.c:682:1: warning: control reaches end of non-void function
NXlib.c: In function 'NXDisplayCongestion':
NXlib.c:656:1: warning: control reaches end of non-void function
NXlib.c: In function 'NXDisplayFlushable':
NXlib.c:638:1: warning: control reaches end of non-void function
make: *** [NXlib.o] Error 1
Aborting...
FreeNX doesn't appear to have been actively developed since 2008, and appears to be even messier than NeatX to setup. That, and it doesn't support many of the newer features in NX, that NeatX does.
My first question - has anybody managed to get either neatx, or x2go working on their Arch Linux system? And if so, how did you go about doing it?
Or alternately - are there any other open-source remote-desktop solutions that are known to work on Arch? I would have thought it's a fairly standard requirement, and that there would be a working solution in the repositories somewhere?
VNC isn't really an option, both due to poor latency/performance, as well as not supporting things like multiple sessions, session shadowing etc.
Cheers,
Victor