QtNX for Mac OS X - A release!

Posted by George Wright Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:41:00 GMT

I’ve finally got a package ready for Mac OS X to use. I’ve been working on 10.4.11, so it’s untested on Leopard, but it works just fine over here. Bugs include the actual QtNX window freezing if anything goes wrong and other random breakages.

The package is fairly nifty - the user interface is a statically linked Qt binary and has barely any dependencies. In the qtnx.app directory is all the NX stuff you need - nxauth, nxssh, nxproxy etc, as well as the default key to login with and many other things. The client does not need to be installed and should just run from inside the dmg image!

The only requirement is that you have X11 from Apple installed, as the client calls “open -a X11” in order to get an X server to use, as packaging X11 seems to be beyond the scope of this, especially given that Apple have made X11 more integral to OS X since the release of Leopard.


QtNX on OS X - Working!

For those of you who want to try it out, I’ve uploaded a zip of the DMG image here (6.8MB, md5sum is eaca6a99b72206554b419bff7a0a1dd1).

As usual, comments are most welcome via email.

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  1. Diederik said about 1 hour later:

    Nice! :-)

    Will this also mean KDE gets a more decent NX client now? :)

  2. George Wright said about 1 hour later:

    Hopefully, yes, but as soon as I’ve finished the initial Windows, OS X and Linux clients, I will not be developing any more until after exams.

  3. Ed Schouten said about 2 hours later:

    Really unrelated, but I’ve got a small OS X trick for you: press Cmd Shift 3 to take a snapshot of the screen. ;-)

  4. BugeyeD said 6 days later:

    what backend (freenx/nxlibs) is required for this?

  5. George Wright said 6 days later:

    You don’t need freenx, but it depends on the nxproxy and nxssh packages from NoMachine, which in turn depend on nxcomp.

  6. r. said about 1 month later:

    it’s INTEL only :(

  7. Mel Goldstein said 9 months later:

    Is there an update that will work with 10.5.5?

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    The right arrow key isn’t working?

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    Is the PC will be safe by installing the OS anybody has installed and checked whether there is any bug in the OS.

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    From where should i get the dvd of it??

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    Is the source code up anywhere visible so that I can persuade my network admin as to the lack of embedded malware?

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