Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Remote X -- Windows' Clone


SeamlessRDP, a seamless windows implementation for rdesktop. SeamlessRDP makes it possible to run individual applications rather than a full desktop. In this mode, rdesktop creates a X11 window for each window on the server side. The remote applications can be moved, resized and restacked.

To start using SeamlessRDP, a few simple steps are required:

1. Get rdesktop 1.5.0 or later from http://www.rdesktop.org/.
2. Get the server side component, "seamlessrdpshell". It is available in the seamlessrdp CVS module. You can also download a pre-built binary from http://www.cendio.se/files/thinlinc/seamlessrdp/seamlessrdp.zip . Unpack the files to some directory on the server, such as c:\seamlessrdp.
3. Run rdesktop with:

rdesktop -A -s "c:\seamlessrdp\seamlessrdpshell.exe notepad"

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