[cw-discuss] FreeNX (Was: Office2003 running on remote Xvnc causes extremely large X traffic)

[Brett Johnson]

On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 07:35 -0400, John Wheaton wrote:
> A comment about FreeNX from the peanut gallery:
> 
> unlike VNC, FreeNX doesn't let you disconnect your session and
> reconnect later.  FreeNX logs in and logs out -- that's it (unless I
> really missed an option).

Apparently, you really missed an option, 'cause a core part of FreeNX is
the "session suspend" functionality.  I.e. when you disconnect the
client, the server can "suspend" the session, and "resume" it next time
you connect.  Note that it's rather more finicky than vnc/rfp is, as NX
resume actually requires that the client have the same X visual(s)
available as are being used in the suspended session.  But at the same
time, it's also much more flexible, as it allows you to have multiple
sessions.

-- 
Brett Johnson <brett at hp.com>