NoMachine client on Chromebook via Android

[jxyzn]

I’m trying the NoMachine client on my Google Pixel 2 LS. It *almost* works great. A few things that could help:

– Buttons get cut off from the bottom of the window. Luckily, toggling the window to full-screen reveals them.

– Some gestures are already used by the OS, so four-finger swipe doesn’t quite work.

– The window isn’t resizable.

– Relatedly, an aspect-ratio preserving display mode would be helpful.

– It would be great if there were a mode that understood the presence of a hardware keyboard and also a hardware pointing device, allowing for actual right-mouse-button use.

Thanks!

-jrs

[Tor]

Hi.

In our next release we’ll include the official support for Chromebook. Problems we’ve found so far are these:

https://www.nomachine.com/TR09N07231
https://www.nomachine.com/TR07N07085

We’re also evaluating some small changes to improve the experience on these devices.

– Buttons get cut off from the bottom of the window. Luckily, toggling the window to full-screen reveals them.

This is one of the problems reported above. As you said, you can work around it by toggling on and off the fullscreen mode.

– Some gestures are already used by the OS, so four-finger swipe doesn’t quite work.

We’ll change the four fingers swipe to four fingers tap, like we did on iOS some versions ago.

– The window isn’t resizable.

– Relatedly, an aspect-ratio preserving display mode would be helpful.

Currently Android doesn’t allow to freely resize the window. This will change with Android N but as of now, we can’t do much. We’ll see how the Chromebook support to Android apps will evolve.

– It would be great if there were a mode that understood the presence of a hardware keyboard and also a hardware pointing device, allowing for actual right-mouse-button use.

You can expect to easily work with mouse and keyboard on Chromebook in our next release, it’s one of the main improvements we’re introducing.
Thank you for sharing your experience and for your proposals!

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