Craig White wrote: > On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 07:39 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> We have created a new version of freenx (freenx-0.5.0-8.c4.noarch.rpm) >> and moved it to the testing repo. >> >> This is based on the code displayed at the LWE in San Francisco ... >> >> http://lwn.net/Articles/146825/ >> >> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8489 >> >> (though it is not officially released as stable by the freenx people) >> >> This version should handle printing and reconnecting to running sessions >> much better. >> >> Running sessions (on the nx server, that is the machine you are >> connecting to) are stored in "/var/lib/nxserver/db/running" ... if you >> have been disconnected in the past, there may be several old sessions >> out there that need to be cleaned up ... go remove the sessions that are >> invalid (all of them in that directory if you do not have any open >> sessions to that server). There is no real auto cleanup of these if >> your session breaks ... I will try to develop something that works >> later. In the meantime, if you session list is to big and some are dead, >> you will have to delete them manually. >> >> This version also allows rootless mode, which is faster compression. >> >> So far, this is a major improvement to my user experience for NX. >> >> ------------------ >> Copy the testing CentOS-Testing.repo file from here: >> >> http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/ >> >> to /etc/yum.repos.d/ , then use this command to install freenx: >> >> yum --enablerepo=c4-testing install freenx nx >> >> Report issues with this to the freeenx tracker here: >> >> http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1307 >> >> ------------------- >> A guide for setting up the NoMachine client (to connect to the freenx >> server, if you installed it) is here: >> >> http://fedoranews.org/contributors/rick_stout/freenx/ >> >> (you only need to do the client items, as the server is taken care of >> with the above yum install). > ---- > further feedback...the resume sessions has been working perfectly > including several unavoidable interruptions (undoubtedly caused by flaky > Internet connection at other end). > > I would say that it's very worthwhile upgrade. > Craig, can you provide feedback on the issue tracking online please ? url is in the email you replied to. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq