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Glitch between the FreeNX server and the Mac OS X variant of NoMachine's NX Client

2007, May 5 - 21:30 — müzso
You can freely download an NX client for Mac OS X from NoMachine's website. However this client is not fully compatible with the FreeNX package (which is actually based on the same sources as NoMachine's NX server). Sad You can successfully connect to a FreeNX server, but the keypresses are not transferred correctly (some garbage comes out on the FreeNX server instead of what you really pressed). I've found a workaround however it is a bit cumbersome:
  1. start clean, so neither the NX Client, nor X11 should be running
  2. start the NX Client, set up a session and start the connection (the NX Client will start X11)
  3. after a successful connection suspend the session (press the "x" in the top left corner of the window), but keep X11 running (this is important!)
  4. now reconnect to the suspended session and this time the keys will work correctly
This works both with the U.S. and with the Hungarian keyboard layout.

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2007, May 12 - 15:18 — Andy (not verified)

Happens with offical NX Sever too!

I don't think this is just limited to FreeNX! I've got the official NXserver and NXnode running on Ubuntu and have exactly the same problem when connecting with NXclient on Mac OS X. If I connect once, everything from the keyboard is scrambled - but if I reconnect to a suspended session, everything's fine! I've tried twiddling with the advanced setting on the client, but no luck. Shocked(

Thanks for the pointer - I'll just keep my sessions running and reconnect to them until someone from NoMachine sorts the client out...

2007, May 12 - 17:04 — müzso

but testdrive works!

Thanks for the info on the official server. It seems that the glitch is between the linux version of NX server and the Mac OS X client in general. However I tested the Mac client with testdrive.nomachine.com and connected to a SUSE session (it seemed to be a new session, not a reconnect to a suspended one) and I had no problems with the keyboard! Shocked Does maybe Nomachine use a newer version on their test site than their latest release version?

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