[Info-vax] Could XRDP be the next graphical interface for VMS?

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Dirk Munk skrev den 2015-03-22 13:32:

> I agree. My first impression was that it was a kind of X-Windows variant. I
> had no idea it would be this primitive. With an X-Windows server you can
> run applications on several clients (in X-Windowa terminology), and that
> will be impossible with RDP I guess.
>

The big difference is that a X-window client application are specificaly
written with X-windows in mind. You can not run anything that is not
written for X-windows in the first place.

Applications that are displayed over RDP does not know they are
displayed using RDP. There are no "RDP-applications".

And you can of course have several RDP sessions open, if you like,
against multiple servers. But each session is a full "desktop".
Not the "D" for "Desktop" in RDP...

Primitive? No, not really. The big advantage is that you do not have
to have specificaly written applications (like X-windows does),
anything you can run localy on the server can also run over RDP.