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Remote desktop vs. remote display

Remote desktop vs. remote display

Posted Feb 16, 2013 0:21 UTC (Sat) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: Remote desktop vs. remote display by khim
Parent article: LCA: The ways of Wayland

> When you connect to remote desktop in Windows it can be resized to match your needs

you are contradicting yourself

either you get a view of the existing desktop (which is a large size with windows spread out over the large space)

or you get a new desktop of whatever size you want and you open apps in the new desktop

My experience with RDP and Citrix is the second, but you have been claiming the first.


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Remote desktop vs. remote display

Posted Feb 16, 2013 0:32 UTC (Sat) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

That's not a contradiction at all, it's not either/or, to claim such indicates a lack of familiarity with the subject. When connecting to an existing session the screen resizes to whatever resolution you specify when you connect, just like if you changed resolution and hot unplugged any secondary displays. When you takeover the session logged into the console that way the console switches to the login screen. You can take the session over by logging in on the console.

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