On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Akemi Yagi amyagi@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
I was trying an assortment of things to get a remote X session working (where I had forgotten to install the xauth package...) and noticed that running xeyes kills my freenx session. This happened whether in the NX/freenx session itself or when run on a remote machine via 'ssh -Y', started from a window in a freenx session. Is that a known problem or do I have something set up wrong? Other GUI programs that open their own windows seem to work, including jconsole which is what I really wanted to run in the first place.
I can confirm half of it. xeyes runs fine if I connect with 'ssh -Y' but crashes if I use NX.
My 'ssh -Y' originated from an NX session on a different machine (freenx on a CentOS 5.x, target of the ssh was a 6.x if that matters). And it killed (not just a disconnect) the freenx session.
The scenario is NX-->freenx in a remote office, then 'ssh -Y' to other machines in the same remote office to get the efficiency of the NX protocol without having to open sessions to a lot of machines. xeyes was just a quick test to see if the remote display was working. It doesn't matter that it doesn't work, but maybe there is a larger problem.