Comment Re:The more reason to use something else. (Score 1) 286
Above post is informative.
When I installed nx the reason for the nx user is the wierdest thing about the installation - I still don't think I understand the rationale here. It doesn't seem like good design to me.
Added to that you have the necessity to do a full xdm login session - that also seems overkill as usually I just want a single xclient running remotely. I think you maybe can do a single client at a time, but I don't understand how to do it.
Otherwise, though, I have to say, though, that NX is fantastic - it does the job it is designed for amazingly well. It seems much better than VNC to me because it deals with the X protocol itself, rather than just redrawing patches of screen. I qualify this with the fact I am only interested in *nix.
I wonder what constraints there would be on developing the open-source version of nx - e.g. to throw out the nx user and make it simple to launch xclients a client at a time? I don't know how much better version 4 is than version 3, but version 3 is still 2-orders of magnitude better than doing x "directly" over ssh for slow connections.
