Still Working On Sorting Out FreeNX On Gentoo
Posted by Stuart Herbert @ 8:58 AM, Wed 15 Nov 06
Filed under: NX / FreeNX
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The amd64 desktop is finally built (although I don’t know how long it’ll continue to work before the hard drive dies), and I’m making steady progress on getting the NX packages working on amd64.
The only real showstopper at the moment with FreeNX is that desktop-related processes get left hanging around when you log out of an NX session. Apart from eating up unnecessary RAM, these processes stop you from logging back in via FreeNX later on. I’m seeing the behaviour w/ Gnome-2.14, and it’s also been reported to happen w/ KDE-3.5.
I’ve had no luck tracking down any fixes for this via Google (and it doesn’t help that Fabien seems to have disappeared once more … no upstream commits for 4 months now). It’s been reported that this only happens w/ nxclient-2.1, but I get the problem with the older nxclient-1.5 too. I suppose it could be a problem w/ the NX-1.5 components (I notice that Fedora are using the >=NX-2.0 for their RPMs); that’s something else to explore.
It doesn’t really help that I’d much rather be working on the LAMP Server seed than trying to get FreeNX working 