Nomachine – FreeNX fullscreen switching
Something that was not obvious to me when using NX client was the ability to get out of fullscreen. I initially thought that they just hadn’t implemented it as yet.. but we are now on version 3 and I thought that the mere oversight should have been fixed by now.
Well, I don’t know if it has always been there but there’s two ways to switch between the remote desktop session and your local session when using NX
You can switch between full-screen and your original desktop by clicking on the ‘Magic Pixel’ on the top-right corner of your screen. Just move to the top right corner of the screen and left-click.
If, for any reason, your remote session is not responding, you can switch by pressing the sequence ctrl+alt+shift+esc.
Hope this helps..
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Thanks for this. I was feeling rather silly, not being able to figure this one out.
One question though. Is there a way to switch desktops (on the local machine) without minimizing the nx client?
I have compiz installed and I use ctrl+alt+left and ctrl+alt+right for switching desktops, but apparently the nx client intercepts these shortcuts and sends them to the remote machine.
I would love to have the remote machine on one of my desktops at all times. I could then switch to and from the remote machine just like it was one of my local desktops.
Never mind my last question. It seems to be working now with ctrl+alt+left and ctrl+alt+right. No idea, why it didn’t work the first time.
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