[CentOS] FreeNX and FF3

Thu Jul 31 14:58:34 UTC 2008
Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>

On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 23:58 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 22:27 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> >> Craig White wrote:
> >>> Anybody else notice how poorly Firefox 3 update on CentOS-5 works via NX
> >>> connection? Any suggestions on fixing the visual artifacts/bad redraws?
> >>>
> >> hmm ... it doesn't seem any worse to me than before.  I am running a 
> >> remote desktop, but currently I my client on the same LAN as the server, 
> >> so I have 1GB connection to the freenx machine.
> >>
> >> Are you running a remote desktop and FF3 in that desktop OR are you 
> >> running the application only?
> >>
> >> What is your compression set too?
> > ----
> > I don't know where the compressions settings are - I've downloaded the
> > latest nx-client (3.2.0-14 Linux) and the default 'disable ZLIB stream
> > compression' is unchecked.
> > 
> > I'm using ADSL speed connection to remote system and that system is
> > up-to-date CentOS-5.2 running...the output of this is a bit weird...
> > 
> > # rpm -q freenx nx
> > freenx-0.7.1.svn416-3.el5.centos
> > freenx-0.7.2-1.el5.centos
> > nx-3.0.0-4.el5.centos
> > nx-3.2.0-8.el5.centos
> > 
> > Not all web pages on that remote CentOS-5 system in FF3 are poorly
> > rendered but some are and the worst is switching from one tab to
> > another...there is no re-draw.
> 
> Is this a i386 or x86-64 system ... you need to remove the older 
> versions as they may be causing issues
----
no - it was an i386 but I removed them both with --allmatches and
re-installed and so far so good.

Thanks

Craig