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  • How large is your homelab cluster? The current restriction of only one Proxmox node is mainly there because in practice I don’t think it would be possible to distinguish between personal use and commercial use. Because many companies also run a cluster with multiple nodes without the enterprise repository as that is not really needed.

    The display issue is interesting because I was not aware of that before. I have a few Linux systems with a gnome DE, but none of these are using nvidia hardware acceleration. I can definitely look into finding the cause for this if you want, but it’s only really worth it for you to spend some time on this if you actually want to keep using XPipe. If the current restrictions are a dealbreaker for you, then I understand that.

    I think a screenshot of how exactly it looks for you would already be a good starting point for me.








  • Sadly this is not possible due to the flatpatk sandbox, at least without having to rewrite basically the entire application. You can’t open other applications or shells from the sandbox, so nothing would work. Someone told me that it is possible in theory to reduce the level isolation of the sandbox via flatseal, but that would require the user to perform additional operations to make it even work. If it is not going to work out of the box, a flatpak version would not make a lot of sense.

    There is an optional automatic update check included that will notify you when a new version is available. You can also automatically install the new version through that, but that is up to you.

    For NX, I assume you’re talking about this: https://www.nomachine.com/. I would have to look into that, it depends on how open the protocol and platform is. Without looking too much into it, I would assume it has some basic open component but since there is a company involved, there’s probably some proprietary vendor lock in. It’s probably the same as with VNC where there is an open protocol spec, but RealVNC also develops their own closed spec to lock out any third party clients from interacting with their tools.







  • I see you edited your original comment since last time, so I can augment my answer.

    I could definitely include a lifetime purchase option for a certain price, but I was skeptical whether people would actually be interested in something like that, mainly due to the potential price difference. I honestly thought that the current model would be better received by potential customers as it is more a pay only what you use model while also keeping access. I did not expect that anyone would actually be interested in a lifetime license. But to be fair, the payment model was designed back when the application was in an earlier development stage and didn’t even work properly for like 50% of users.

    I will definitely rework the website to better get the point across on how continuous updates are handled as there is no intention to make it a predatory model. Then I will reevaluate the licensing model.


  • Maybe I have to improve the wording on that, you are right.

    The idea is based on the established model of other applications, where you buy a license for a certain version. If a new major version releases in that case, you will probably not access to that with your old license. Even if you are perfectly happy with the version you bought, the issue of that model is that you will also miss out on important bug fixes , security patches, and normally free enhancements as older versions are no longer supported.

    XPipe tries to find a compromise here. There is the same build for everyone, which is receiving continuous updates and support. The are no hard version barriers, it’s a continuous development. The licensing system paywall is therefore very artificial in that the build contains all features but it will not allow for usage of professional-only features released after more than one year after your license date. You can keep using all professional features that were included before forever. The important part is that you will still receive updates as anyone else, you just can’t use new professional-only features that are included in them if more than one year has passed. But you will receive bug fixes and security updates even if you own an ancient license.









  • Thanks for the feedback!

    • There is a custom shell functionality under add command -> shell command, however it’s not perfect so you have to see whether it works for your cases
    • I am not sure whether direnv works when you create a custom shell environment in xpipe with an init script of cd , I can test that
    • About connecting to docker containers and other hosts, you can in theory connect as any user. However some parts like an on demand sudo elevation is currently bugged, but will work soon.
    • Yeah I can imagine that using it in a tiling window manager is not very pleasant, I honestly did not take these into account when designing it. However, I plan to get rid of separate dialog windows and merge them with the main window.