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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <memeas$dfi$1 at news.albasani.net>,
	Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
> 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.
 
Well, almost.  there are applications that will not work over RDP.
Anything that depends on graphics capabilities greater than what
RDP can provide.  For example: Minecraft      :-)

bill 
 
 

-- 
Bill Gunshannon          |  de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n.  Three wolves
billg999 at cs.scranton.edu |  and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
University of Scranton   |
Scranton, Pennsylvania   |         #include <std.disclaimer.h>