If you have X2Go or FreeNX installed as well, do not get confused that some files use similar names (i.e. The post-install script also creates a new user nx. The files created by NoMachine Player are stored in: usr/local/share/applications/NoMachine*.desktop In particular, the majority of NoMachine files are kept within /usr/NX directory, but a few more are added: Note that the setup actually takes place by a post-installation script and therefore the list of files shown by command pacman -Ql nomachine is not complete! It includes both server and client tar balls. The major limitation of the free edition is that only a single remote desktop session may run on the server. on head-less machines), NoMachine tries to start its own X server with the default Desktop environment automatically. The free edition allows to connect to an existing X display (also known as display shadowing of a live session with a physical display) or, if no X display is available (e.g.

Clients exist for Linux, MS Windows, macOS, Android and iOS.

Since NoMachine version 4, the software is proprietary and currently two editions are available: Free and Enterprise. TeamViewer), NoMachine does not require an intermediary server to establish the connection.

Unlike some other remote desktop solutions (e.g. The major drawback of these is that they utilise a built-in X server of nxagent, which originates from the year 2005 and some current X applications cannot run due to unsupported features available only in newer versions of X libraries. There are derivatives based on core NX libraries like FreeNX and X2Go. Until version 3.x, NoMachine was known as NX and available under GPL. NoMachine enables you to access a graphical desktop of a computer over the network.

Nomachine workstation