Ice Window Manager is set as the default desktop for NX due to low resource requirements.The following instructions are optional, but Ice window manager sessions could be more productive with
these settings.
Create a file in your home directory called .Xresources with the following contents (modify the contents according to your needs)
xterm*faceName: DejaVu Sans Mono Book xterm*faceSize: 12 xterm*loginshell: true xterm*savelines: 16384 xterm*rightScrollBar: true xterm*ScrollBar: true xterm*scrollTtyOutput: false
Create a directory called .icewm on your home directory
Create the following two files in the .icewm directory
A file called startup with the following contents
#!/bin/bash xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources setxkbmap -model evdev #setxkbmap -model pc105 #Some NX clients work with evdev, some others work with pc105 #Setting one of the above is necessary to enable bash history on the xterm
A file called toolbar with the following contents
prog XTerm xterm xterm prog Thunar fm thunar
Make the file called startup executable like this -
chmod +x ~/.icewm/startup
Workaround for obtaining full color on NX session
In the NX client, please enable the following option
Configure → Display → Use custom settings → Settings → Use plain X bitmaps