Comments on: Nomachine NX - Desktop Sharing & Shadowing now available. http://www.opensourcetutor.com/2007/06/21/nomachine-nx-desktop-sharing-shadowing-now-available/ A healthy mouthful of Open Source Blogging Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:31:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: salubrium http://www.opensourcetutor.com/2007/06/21/nomachine-nx-desktop-sharing-shadowing-now-available/#comment-72 salubrium Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:02:31 +0000 http://www.opensourcetutor.com/2007/06/21/nomachine-nx-desktop-sharing-shadowing-now-available/#comment-72 I have been able to overcome the "squashing effect" when the resolution of your remote screen is different to that of your local screen but when accessing a local desktop, screen updates do not seem to work correctly, ie: click on a menu and nothing happens until you hover over where you think the menu would be, then each part of the menu starts to appear - and then when you click elsewhere, the menu pixels are still displayed even though the menu on the local screen is now closed. From the NX documents here, which list numerous shortcuts for NX http://www.nomachine.com/faq-read.php?id=AR03C00172 Ctrl + Alt + keypad arrow keys to viewport navigation (Note: this action is performed also by keeping Ctrl + Alt pressed and dragging the content of the main window by the pointer) Ctrl + Alt + R to switch "auto-resize/viewport" mode. The agent starts in auto-resize mode, so users can resize the desktop simply by resizing the main window. In viewport mode, resizing the main window doesn't make the desktop resize itself, but users can navigate the desktop by moving the viewport I have been able to overcome the “squashing effect” when the resolution of your remote screen is different to that of your local screen but when accessing a local desktop, screen updates do not seem to work correctly, ie: click on a menu and nothing happens until you hover over where you think the menu would be, then each part of the menu starts to appear - and then when you click elsewhere, the menu pixels are still displayed even though the menu on the local screen is now closed.

From the NX documents here, which list numerous shortcuts for NX

http://www.nomachine.com/faq-read.php?id=AR03C00172

Ctrl + Alt + keypad arrow keys to viewport navigation (Note: this action is performed also by keeping Ctrl + Alt pressed and dragging the content of the main window by the pointer)

Ctrl + Alt + R to switch “auto-resize/viewport” mode. The agent starts in auto-resize mode, so users can resize the desktop simply by resizing the main window. In viewport mode, resizing the main window doesn’t make the desktop resize itself, but users can navigate the desktop by moving the viewport

]]> By: salubrium http://www.opensourcetutor.com/2007/06/21/nomachine-nx-desktop-sharing-shadowing-now-available/#comment-56 salubrium Thu, 02 Aug 2007 11:06:51 +0000 http://www.opensourcetutor.com/2007/06/21/nomachine-nx-desktop-sharing-shadowing-now-available/#comment-56 Hi Sarah - No doubt, I appreciate all the effort the NoMachine team has gone to.. NX is truly fantastic - I use it approx 4hrs of every day across a WAN. I often find myself surfing the web through NX (across a 1mb link) - I'd love to get some customers using it and with these newly added features, I think it's a real possibility. You really need to get the client as a standard in Thin Clients.. at the moment only a few support it. DevonIT & Igel come to mind. Hi Sarah - No doubt, I appreciate all the effort the NoMachine team has gone to.. NX is truly fantastic - I use it approx 4hrs of every day across a WAN. I often find myself surfing the web through NX (across a 1mb link) - I’d love to get some customers using it and with these newly added features, I think it’s a real possibility. You really need to get the client as a standard in Thin Clients.. at the moment only a few support it. DevonIT & Igel come to mind.

]]> By: Sarah Dryell http://www.opensourcetutor.com/2007/06/21/nomachine-nx-desktop-sharing-shadowing-now-available/#comment-55 Sarah Dryell Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:17:36 +0000 http://www.opensourcetutor.com/2007/06/21/nomachine-nx-desktop-sharing-shadowing-now-available/#comment-55 Hello, I read your comments about NoMachine NX and would like to provide some feedback. You might like to visit our website since you wrote this - we have recently made some adjustments to our website and the location of documentation is now much easier. Just go to http://www.nomachine.com/documents.php. There you will find all the installation guides and other useful information. The Administrator's Guide also explains how to set up session shadowing, as does this article http://www.nomachine.com/ar/view.php?ar_id=AR11B00098. This should solve the issues you have with desktop sharing and session shadowing. Concerning the issues you had with your remote screen resolution, the image is scaled when the local screen does not have the capability of containing the entire remote screen, due to the difference of resolution. The scaling is not applied with NX agent running in 'viewport' mode. The viewport can be activated by Ctrl-Alt-L keystroke, and can be navigated by dragging the pointer with Ctrl-Alt kept pressed. The developers are aware that improvements could be made to allow for the varying screen resolutions to be handled better by the end user. Further changes are under evaluation in order to provide the ability of changing the default behaviour and other run-time settings through a graphical interface. User feedback is vital to us, so feel free to contact us directly. The NoMachine Team will take care of sending you a prompt reply. Kind regards, Sarah Dryell NoMachine.com Hello,

I read your comments about NoMachine NX and would like to provide some feedback.

You might like to visit our website since you wrote this - we have recently made some adjustments to our website and the location of documentation is now much easier. Just go to http://www.nomachine.com/documents.php. There you will find all the installation guides and other useful information.
The Administrator’s Guide also explains how to set up session shadowing, as does this article http://www.nomachine.com/ar/view.php?ar_id=AR11B00098. This should solve the issues you have with desktop sharing and session shadowing.

Concerning the issues you had with your remote screen resolution, the image is scaled when the local screen does not have the capability of containing the entire remote screen, due to the difference of resolution.

The scaling is not applied with NX agent running in ‘viewport’ mode. The viewport can be activated by Ctrl-Alt-L keystroke, and can be navigated by dragging the pointer with Ctrl-Alt kept pressed.

The developers are aware that improvements could be made to allow for the varying screen resolutions to be handled better by the end user. Further changes are under evaluation in order to provide the ability of changing the default behaviour and other run-time settings through a graphical interface.

User feedback is vital to us, so feel free to contact us directly. The NoMachine Team will take care of sending you a prompt reply.

Kind regards,

Sarah Dryell
NoMachine.com

]]> By: opensourcetutor.com » Blog Archive » NoMachine FreeNX - accessing active session isn’t possible http://www.opensourcetutor.com/2007/06/21/nomachine-nx-desktop-sharing-shadowing-now-available/#comment-29 opensourcetutor.com » Blog Archive » NoMachine FreeNX - accessing active session isn’t possible Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:10:50 +0000 http://www.opensourcetutor.com/2007/06/21/nomachine-nx-desktop-sharing-shadowing-now-available/#comment-29 [...] below is left for reference but it IS apparently now possible to do this using NoMachine V3.0 - see this post Look, it’s just not possible in FreeNX to grab a local console session or [...] [...] below is left for reference but it IS apparently now possible to do this using NoMachine V3.0 - see this post Look, it’s just not possible in FreeNX to grab a local console session or [...]

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