Hi,

I was trying to port nxlibs to xorg 7.0 some time ago. I have made everything compile successfully. But I got a black screen when connected (seems libx11 problem), I'm not a xorg hacker, so I gave up.
The packages I've created:
libx11-nx
libxrender-nx
nxcomp
nxcompshad
nxproto-input
nxproxy
nxtrans
libxau-nx
libxt-nx
nxcompext
nx-proto-core
nxproto-kb
nxssh
nx-X11 (only nxagent)


nxagent is not modular so I compiled it using links to headers and removing everything else from the build script.

If anyone is interested I can put the sources somewhere.

There are nx packages for feisty in https://edge.launchpad.net/~marceloshima/+archive . It is modular. I use nxlib-dev as build-dep to compile nxcomp, nxcompext and nxcompshat, but libxcomp-dev is build-dep to nxlibs. nxcomp that uses nx-proto-core is not on this repository but I've made it.

Hope this can help,
Marcelo

On Dec 14, 2007 12:14 PM, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda <lepalom@wol.es> wrote:
A Dimecres 12 Desembre 2007 22:36, Tim Freedom va escriure:
> --- Durk Strooisma <durk@kern.nl> wrote:
> > > Is there a proper repo that can be used instead of fetching .deb
> > > packages from various potentially soon-disappearing locations ?
> > > Can Jeremy's pacakges, once proven for the mainstream debian populous
> > > out there, get included on say the FreeNX advertised debian site
> > > (http://packages.debianbase.de) or others ?  This is really important.
> >
> > You can find in the november archive information about my repos with
> > NX-packages for sarge (seems to work on etch as well). These are a bit
> > behind, but still usable; NX 2.1, FreeNX 0.6.0.
>
> And that's what I'm pointing out - various people try, get something
> going and then either abandon it and/or move on (or the links become
> stale).  Could we get your files (and Jeremy's and ...) all uploaded
> and maintained (on each release) to a single website/URL/repository ?
>
> > >> About why it didn't make it in the Debian list, look for something
> > >> like "FreeNX rewrite". This year there was a long discussion about it.
>
> In looking through this I also came across the following,
>
>
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-nx-group/2007-July/thread.html
>
> but the thread seems dead (no posts since July 07) - have there been
> any resolutions to this (and many other topics I came across - new
> website, new project name, possible collaboration with the 2X team,
> etc, etc).  Can all these interesting "future centric" issues be
> noted clearly somewhere to not only lessen confusion but to spur
> contribution, support and innovation (homepage, a wiki page, etc) ?
>
Hi,

I feel a bit guilty because I tried to help in this issue and finally I have
done nothing. Sorry Fabian, as always and many people, the time is a non
renewed resource ....

It's no easy or trivial to have freenx in debian official: there's a problem
(with solution) with the base code (NX) that implies that freenx fails. The
nxlibs is a "fork" of the  Xfree before and now Xorg and also have some
security issues that have to take care. Think in mind that a maintenable
solution is to have an "official" debian package of nx, not severals projects
as now.

One one the solutions that with Fabian we talked was to create a real fork of
the NX libs , also create a new project, something like "freenx is dead" we
move to ....... (VLSC?) with the idea to create a NX libs, which are based
the project is some kind of wrapped code to the Xorg in the way that it will
be possible to have a "official" debian package in a future.

I said to Fabian that I will try to help in this, and I finally have done
nothing (sorry....) so, the things are more or less in this situation....

Best regards,

Leo

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