QtNX - ready for public consumption
Posted by George Wright Wed, 23 Aug 2006 21:57:00 GMT
Today I put the finishing touches to QtNX. It now has a nice little logging window and different authentication public keys can be used now. The statusbar now gives meaningful information and a message box comes up if ssh is requesting permission to proceed (for connecting to previously-unconnected hosts).
The Key Dialogue
There are a few glitches though. It appears that it doesn’t like to connect to various versions of NX - 2.0.0 appears to be particularly troublesome at the moment. I intend to install NX 2.0.0 on a machine somewhere at some point, but if someone was willing to give me access to a machine running 2.0.0 or a Windows NX server I’d be very grateful.
The Log Window
There are various other bits and pieces that haven’t been implemented due to lack of knowledge about how it works. These are basically limited to printer support, Windows server support and VNC server support. Sound does work, which surprised me as I didn’t go out of my way to get it to work - it seems it’s forwarded automatically!
The Statusbar
The suspend/resume session support appears to be a little iffy at the moment, but I hope to stabilise that. It works quite well, but I’d like it to be a little more robust. Perhaps this is a problem with the NX server as well as I used to have trouble suspending and resuming sessions in the binary client supplied by NoMachine as well.
In any case, here’s a nice little screenshot of the whole of QtNX working as it should:
QtNX in all its glory
I also urge as many people as possible to test this and send me feedback to the usual email address. Ideally I’d like a log from ssh (what’s dumped to stdout, or the really nice and new log window) and any other information you deem relevant (like what doesn’t work). It can be obtained from the usual place. I’ll blog with some intructions on how to install it on Dapper soon (as I’ve just transitioned all my boxes from Gentoo to Dapper - a blog detailing my experiences will appear some day…).
You are my hero! I have an ibook, an I never had the luck of running the free client on linux or the propietary one in OS X.
I’m looking forward to use this. Thanks! :)
Hi! great soft, i’m trying to port it to windows too. keep the good work
i don’t understand a single word of that..
So… What is this thing anyway?
It’s a replacement for running a full fledged X Server, or VNC. It lets you remote desktop all the same, and it’s optimized for X.
PLEASE continue this project, or at least recommend the correct server and libraries that we all need to use the open source version (because Nomachine will change the protocols)