Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

NX Client issues

Well, after spending a couple of hours banging my head on an issue, I thought I would share some information with the community. We've been looking at using NX Server for our remote desktop needs. I've been working on getting a prototype working so that we could determine whether or not it met our needs and whether we wanted to pursue a licensing agreement with them. It's not been working. They problem has been that I could get the screen to show up properly, and it sized nicely, and the mouse worked. I could launch apps, I could even cut from the client machine and paste onto the server. The thing I could not get working for the life of me was typing, which is generally a pretty big priority. I had one of my friends login and it began working for him immediately. After some environment comparisons and some trial and error I found that if I set XKEYSYMDB then NX would not work well. As soon as I removed that variable, things worked great. Just thought I'd let everybody know to look out for this if they are trying to get this working.

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