I just tried x2go - Same problems. On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Samuel Winchenbach <swinchen at gmail.com>wrote: > Well the slow dialog isn't the problem so much. > > I have disabled selinux just to remove one variable from the problem! > > Here are a list of applications and if they prompt for the root password > correctly: > "Add/Remove Software" - Application start fine, but when I click apply I > get "Authorization Failed" dialog box. > "Authentication" - Works great! > "Firewall" - I get an > org.fedoraproject.slip.dbus.service.PolKit.NotAuthroized.org.fedoraproject.config.firewall.auth > error dialog box on start. > "Services" - Application starts fine, but it never prompts for root > password and none of the buttons (enable, disable, start, stop, restart) > seem to do anything > "Software Update" - Application starts fine but "Install Updates" doesn't > do anything. > "Users and Groups" - Works great! > > So it is strange that "Authentication" and "Users and Groups" work great, > but the other fail one way or another. Different authentication > mechanisms? I am really quite lost. > > Sam > > > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Samuel Winchenbach <swinchen at gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > The "several minutes" to open a window is not a rendering issue. The >> user >> > experience overall is _very_ good. As I use it more and more I can not >> > seem to recreate the delayed root prompt. >> > >> > We have used freenx in the past, but with the change of licensing in the >> > newest release and several difficulties (mostly involving Max OSX >> clients) >> > we have decided to go with RDP. >> >> Note that x2go does approximately the same as freenx/NX, using some of >> the same supporting libraries. However, it is all open source, >> including the cross-platform clients. I had some problems with >> earlier versions, but the current version seems pretty good and might >> be worth another look. It is somewhat nicer than the old NX client on >> windows because it allows resizing the window after startup - and >> resizes the remote desktop to match. It also claims to connect audio >> and client disk shares, but I haven't used those features. >> >> A couple of things that can cause long delays that seem kind of random >> are the first of your DNS servers failing with a timeout before the >> retry to the good one, or something that does an IDENT query to log >> the remote socket user hitting a firewall that silently drops the >> packet instead of rejecting with an ICMP. >> >> -- >> Les Mikesell >> lesmikesell at gmail.com >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > >