<p dir="ltr">Lewis,</p>
<p dir="ltr">By rootless, I meant no root window, no background or window manager. </p>
<p dir="ltr">My Xming32 is setup so x11 apps intermingle with my local windows apps and the win32 gui is my window manager, just the same as you doing ssh -X REMOTE_HOST xterm on a Linux desktop and the remote xterm showing up next to the local ones </p>
<p dir="ltr">Justin </p>
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Hey, buddy...<br>
<br>
FreeNX is indeed your best bet on the server side.<br>
<br>
By "rootless X session" I assume you mean a non-root login from the
remote side vs the server daemon running non-root? In either case,
the answer is yes: you can install FreeNX to run as non-root on the
server side, and yes, you can connect using OpenNX and log in as a
non-root user.<br>
<br>
Obviously, running the server daemon as non-root can have some
limitations when trying to, for example, log into a session as a
user with higher/different privs than the user account under which
the server is running (LOL), and is mainly useful for extending your
own account to a remote location vs serving a wide range of users
logging into the system.<br>
<br>
In the setup I had running, it was really only for three users, and
each had about the same privs (fairly limited, too; the main use of
the desktop was to run Firefox and Chromium, and as I say, proxy
those outbound connections through different IPs). I ran FreeNX as a
privileged user mainly for my own convenience. If I would have had a
larger group of users to support, I would have run it in a jail,
most likely, which may be another option for you to consider,
depending upon how much control you have over the remote system.<br>
<br>
HTH<br>
<br>
<div>On 04/24/15 09:34 pm, Justin Dearing
thus wrote :<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Lewis,
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<div>Thanks for the reply. I did a quick install of it on my
laptop, and I don't see an option for a rootless X session.
I'll have to play with it some more. I also found FreeNX,
which seems to be the NX server, that google tells me might
support a rootless X session. </div>
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<div>Justin</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Lewis
G Rosenthal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lgrosenthal@2rosenthals.com" target="_blank">lgrosenthal@2rosenthals.com</a>></span>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hey,
buddy...<br>
<br>
On 04/23/15 03:21 pm, Justin Dearing thus wrote :<span><br>
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Hello all,<br>
<br>
Long version: In the UK is a linux boxthat I often ssh
into from Hoboken, or Cranford VPNed into Hoboken and
develop against. tmux and vim are great for 99% of my
needs. Sometimes I just want to run pycharm for
reasons.Sometimes I want to run tmux from terminator.
This basically works, but there is a lot of latency.<br>
<br>
My laptop is running Windows 7 with putty and the latest
paid for Xming32 build. I turned on ssh compression. The
server is running centos 6.6 with EPEL, some scientific
linux stuff and the pythong 27 and python 33 SCLs. Other
than using VNC instead of a rootless X11 server, is
there anything I can do to reduce X11 latency? Is there
any troubleshooting I could do?<br>
<br>
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You may recall the setup I had going a couple of years ago
for a client in India, where we were landing traffic here in
the US and then going out to the net routed from several
physical locations. The VNC latency was a killer (there was
a single bad router hop in the UK between us which bombed on
a regular basis, like a black hole).<br>
<br>
We ultimately went with OpenNX:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://opennx.net/" target="_blank">http://opennx.net/</a><br>
<br>
which worked like a charm. Very low latency and low
bandwidth, and worked consistently well, even over flaky
connections.<br>
<br>
HTH<br>
<br>
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