Finally I had some time to get my hand on new Raspberry Pi 2.
I think it’s useful to access the RPi2 by ssh (work out of the box) and NX. Installation of NX server is quite time-consuming, but I think it’s worth to give it a try! Here is what I did:
# install dependencies sudo apt-get install xutils-dev expect xorg-dev libjpeg8-dev libpng12-dev cups xfonts-base x11-xserver-utils autoconf sudo mkdir -p /usr/NX/{bin,etc} # install freenx wget http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/freenx-server/freenx-server-0.7.3.tar.gz/856f597e139018f7ed62713c9d6c9ed5/freenx-server-0.7.3.tar.gz tar xpfvz freenx-server-0.7.3.tar.gz cd freenx-server-0.7.3 patch < gentoo-nomachine.diff make sudo make install # copy node.conf # and replace #COMMAND_MD5SUM="openssl md5" with COMMAND_MD5SUM="md5sum" # and #COMMAND_START_GNOME=gnome-session with COMMAND_START_GNOME="/usr/bin/startlxde" sudo cp node.conf.sample /usr/NX/etc/node.conf # get nx source wget http://code.x2go.org/releases/source/nx-libs/nx-libs_3.5.0.13-full.tar.gz tar xpfvz nx-libs_3.5.0.13-full.tar.gz cd nx-libs_3.5.0.13 # compile & relax for ~1 hour... make build-full sudo make install # copy libs and binaries sudo ln -s /usr/lib/NX3/lib/nx /usr/NX/lib sudo cp -a nx-X11/lib/X11/libNX_X11.so* nx-X11/lib/Xext/libNX_Xext.so* nx-X11/lib/Xrender/libNX_Xrender.so* nxcomp/libXcomp.so* nxcompext/libXcompext.so* nxcompshad/libXcompshad.so* /usr/NX/lib sudo cp -a nx-X11/programs/nxauth/nxauth nx-X11/programs/Xserver/nxagent nxproxy/nxproxy /usr/NX/bin # link binaries & install for f in /usr/bin/nx*; do echo $f; sudo ln -s $f /usr/NX/bin; done sudo nxsetup --install
After these steps, you should be able to connect with NX client using fake GNOME session.
Post is based on TiaoWiki with some updates/improvements.