On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 18:22 +0200, Maciej ?enczykowski wrote: > Hi, > my experience (I'm running self built latest nx from rick's source rpms > (on Centos 4.1) with latest NoMachine client under Linux on FC2) with NX - > still playing around with it though so maybe I'll figure it out... > > I can get to a black X screen with red/white !M displayed (which after a > second or two vanishes). Now if I ssh into the server and execute > "DISPLAY=:1000 xterm" then I get an xterm in the blank NX server screen, > in the xterm I can run "twm &" and quit the xterm and I have an TWM > session working (I've also tried kdestart and gnome-session and those work > as well). However I can't get the server to automatically start these > programs by itself - it would seem that this part of the client-server > interaction ?suspends? part of the server process and no programs (like > the window manager or an xterm or whatever) are ever actually launched. > I'll look around, but for now the run nxclient to get nested X server nd > run ssh afterwards to launch an xterm is sufficient for my needs :) I had an issue with loading my "ssh Key" (which asked for input) in my .bash_profile ... which caused the exact issue you mentioned ... a black screen ... waiting for me to answer a question that I could not see on the login. After I got rid of that in my bash_profile it worked fine. ----------------- Seperate issue ... What does the command: nxserver --status on the server give you? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050812/466342d6/attachment.bin