How to enable view only mode?

[sparegris]

I checked the site already, but there seems to be no option in my server or client to ignore mouse input. Basically, I want the option to switch off mouse input from the client, so that the operator server side can use their mouse uninhibited.

According to this link it should be possible: https://www.nomachine.com/FR12L02848

I have “grab mouse input” turned off, but it does not help with this. What do I need to do?

I am using the windows client to connect to a linux mint desktop. It works fine, except for this issue.

[graywolf]

There is an option to ignore mouse and keyboard input coming from the client. Look at /usr/NX/etc/server.cfg:

#
# Set the interaction level for the session connected to the physical
# desktop:
#
# 0: View-only. The session is connected to the desktop in
# view-only mode, i.e. the user can't interact with the
# physical desktop.
#
# 1: Restricted. User connected to the physical desktop can
# interact with the desktop except for resize operations.
#
# 2: Interactive. User connected to the physical desktop has
# full interaction with the desktop.
#
PhysicalDesktopMode 1

The feature request you mentioned is not implemented yet, but you do not need it anyway: it is about the ability of changing the view mode at run-time.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 10 months ago by graywolf.
• This reply was modified 8 years, 10 months ago by graywolf.

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