Re: [debian-knoppix] nxclient with other window managers?
Am Donnerstag, 7. Oktober 2004 19:30 schrieb Edgar Neukirchner:
> With the configuration:
> Computer1(Knoppix, nxserver) <-> Computer2(win2000, nxclient),
>
> I tried to use nxclient with another window manager than gnome or kde. I
> tried to start with icewm, so I put into the nxclient configuration
> ->custom -> run command: icewm, but actually all I got was a black screen
> with a cross-shaped mouse cursor.
Yeah, the custom session type was not yet supported on the version 0.1
available on Knoppix.
>
> What is wrong with my setup? With computer2 running knoppix also but
> without nxclient but an ordinary ssh -X computer1 -l knoppix everything
> worked fine!
You can though, try to start the session by hand (to workaround the problem
until a new Knoppix version is available):
- Update to 0.2.4. Install to HD, add the line with kalyxo.org to your
sources.list, apt-get update, apt-get -t experimental install nxserver
- Link ununsed gnome-session to icewm and start a normal gnome-session
- After having started the custom session, login to remote and do:
as root:
nxserver --list # to find the display-offset
as user:
export DISPLAY=unix:<found-offset>.0
icewm &
You can also try to guess the display offset, as long as no nxagent hangs,
FreeNX will just use display offsets starting from 1000 on, so if you just
have started the first session and you could not find a stale lock file
like /tmp/.X1000-lock, it probably is :1000, and then :1001 and so on.
Hope that helps.
cu
Fabian
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