Linux NX and Xfce

[Jasper Huijsmans]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 09:52:09AM -0400, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Joe Klemmer wrote:
> 
> > 	I do not know if this has been addressed or not.  I am 469 messages
> > behind in this list.  But I wanted to bring it up just in case.
> > 
> > 	It seems that xfce4-panel will not run under Linux with the new NX (No
> > eXecute) feature.  See -
> > 
> > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0407.1/0782.html
> 
> interesting.  i emerged chpax on my gentoo machine and had a look at the 
> config file, and it looks like xfce4-panel requires PSE - "PageExec", 
> "SegmExec", and "Emulate Trampolines".  from the man page this means 
> that the kernel needs to needs to:
> * not enforce paging based on non-executable pages
> * not enforce segmentation based on non-executable pages
> * emulate trampolines
> when running xfce4-panel.  i have only a passing knowledge of this 
> stuff, so i'm not going to be much help "fixing it", but i thought i'd 
> share what info i could find.
> 
> 	-brian
> 

Can someone explain to me what this all means and what makes the panel so
special?

Only thing I can think of is the plugins, but then that would be true for
xfce-mcs-manager as well.

Thanks Joe for pointing it out.

	Jasper