Editing NX inside VE

My goals were simply to be able to connect to a VE using an NX client. This is handy for when I work from home and wish to run a web browser on my work's internal network to access local resources.

= Installation =

Firstly i created a new VE using the gutsy template. I then installed X and XDM
<pre>apt-get install xorg xdm</pre>
Then I added this 3rd party repo to sources.list
<pre>
deb http://www.datakeylive.com/ubuntu gutsy main
deb-src http://www.datakeylive.com/ubuntu gutsy main
</pre>
Install the repo keys and update:
<pre>
wget http://www.datakeylive.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/wjeremy.key -O - | sudo apt-key add -
wget http://www.datakeylive.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/alivesoftware.key -O - | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
</pre>
Install FreeNX
<pre>
sudo apt-get install expect openssh-server tcl8.4 libxcomp2 libxcompext2 libxcompshad nxlibs nxagent nxproxy nxclient freenx
</pre>
Finally I installed IceWM
<pre>
apt-get install icewm icewm-themes
</pre>

== Configuration ==

=== Configuring X ===
In /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config, comment out the line where it says '''DisplayManager.requestPort: 0'''

In /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers, comment out the line ''':0 local /usr/bin/X :0 vt7''' (this starts a local X server, which will fail)

In /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess, uncomment the line with '''* #any host can get a login window''' (Please keep in mind the security implications by the above line. Read the comments found in the file and set it appropriately)

=== Configure NX Server ===

Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Ensure that the files section looks similar to this:

<pre>
Section "Files"

        # path to defoma fonts
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
EndSection
</pre>

Now create a local user account:
<pre>useradd -m <username></pre>

Now we add this user to nxserver:
<pre>sudo nxserver --adduser <username></pre>

=== Configure NX client ===

Setup the Host/Port. 
In the desktop section select Unix and Custom. In Settings, select "Run the default X client script on server".
I set display to 1024x768.

Now try to connect. You should get the ICEwm menu bar at the bottom of the screen.

I think I would prefer a proper desktop session, but I do not know how to do this as of yet.