Hi,
using centos 4.4, and freenx-0.5.0-10.c4 and nx-1.5.0-1.centos4 on a 8 CPU Amd Opteron system.
If I access this system by nxclient-1.5.0 from some workstation (FC6) with Gnome desktop, then after a successful login the X11 windows have no windowmanager frame, so a handling of the X11 windows is very difficult.
This effect does not appear when acessing the centos system by xdm.
Is this a known issue? All comments are appreciated.
Regards
Joachim Backes wrote:
Hi,
using centos 4.4, and freenx-0.5.0-10.c4 and nx-1.5.0-1.centos4 on a 8 CPU Amd Opteron system.
If I access this system by nxclient-1.5.0 from some workstation (FC6) with Gnome desktop, then after a successful login the X11 windows have no windowmanager frame, so a handling of the X11 windows is very difficult.
This effect does not appear when acessing the centos system by xdm.
Is this a known issue? All comments are appreciated.
Regards
Hmmm, I'm doing just that right now, using NX to use my home system from the office. You might want to check your NX session configuration. On the "General" tab, in the "Desktop" box, make sure that "Unix" and "GNOME" (or "KDE") are selected. I have had problems with any other settings, but these seem to work just fine for me. I'm using NX to access around a dozen servers from both my home and office workstations with excellent results.
Hope that helps!
Joachim Backes wrote:
Hi,
using centos 4.4, and freenx-0.5.0-10.c4 and nx-1.5.0-1.centos4 on a 8 CPU Amd Opteron system.
If I access this system by nxclient-1.5.0 from some workstation (FC6) with Gnome desktop, then after a successful login the X11 windows have no windowmanager frame, so a handling of the X11 windows is very difficult.
This effect does not appear when acessing the centos system by xdm.
Is this a known issue? All comments are appreciated.
I had exactly the same problem for a while - using a non standard resolution - but sticking with 1024x768 seems to resolve the problem for me ( client = centos5/x86_64 and server = centos4/x86_64 )
- KB
Karanbir Singh wrote:
Joachim Backes wrote:
Hi,
using centos 4.4, and freenx-0.5.0-10.c4 and nx-1.5.0-1.centos4 on a 8 CPU Amd Opteron system.
If I access this system by nxclient-1.5.0 from some workstation (FC6) with Gnome desktop, then after a successful login the X11 windows have no windowmanager frame, so a handling of the X11 windows is very difficult.
This effect does not appear when acessing the centos system by xdm.
Is this a known issue? All comments are appreciated.
I had exactly the same problem for a while - using a non standard resolution - but sticking with 1024x768 seems to resolve the problem for me ( client = centos5/x86_64 and server = centos4/x86_64 )
- KB
Hi Karanbir,
What I told was that the usage of GNOME (independent from resultion) on centos-4.4 runs into problems. Especially, res=1024x768 does not solve the gnome-problem.
If I use KDE, I have no problems.
Joachim Backes wrote:
What I told was that the usage of GNOME (independent from resultion) on centos-4.4 runs into problems. Especially, res=1024x768 does not solve the gnome-problem.
If I use KDE, I have no problems.
ah then a different problem to mine, I had and can quite reliably reproduce the issue using Gnome/CentOS4.4/x86_64 with a CentOS5/NX Client and > 1024x768 as the resolution.
- KB
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 09:23 +0100, Joachim Backes wrote:
If I access this system by nxclient-1.5.0 from some workstation (FC6) with Gnome desktop, then after a successful login the X11 windows have no windowmanager frame, so a handling of the X11 windows is very difficult.
I think I know what the problem is - I should add an article to my website.
Anyway, you say you're running FC6 on the client you're connecting from. FC6 loads the "composite" extension for the X server by default. The NX client doesn't like it: the result is exactly what you're seeing.
Disable the composite extension in xorg.conf, and restart the X server. After you do, try logging into your remote NX session again. Your window manager should be back.
Regards,
Ranbir
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 09:23 +0100, Joachim Backes wrote:
If I access this system by nxclient-1.5.0 from some workstation (FC6) with Gnome desktop, then after a successful login the X11 windows have no windowmanager frame, so a handling of the X11 windows is very difficult.
I think I know what the problem is - I should add an article to my website.
Anyway, you say you're running FC6 on the client you're connecting from. FC6 loads the "composite" extension for the X server by default. The NX client doesn't like it: the result is exactly what you're seeing.
Disable the composite extension in xorg.conf, and restart the X server. After you do, try logging into your remote NX session again. Your window manager should be back.
Regards,
Ranbir
Hi Ranbir,
Adding the sequence
Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Disable" EndSection
at the end of /etc/X11/xorg.conf solved my problem: now the windowmanager in the remote CentOS NX session starts correctly when GNOME is used.
Many thanks.
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Karanbir Singh