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Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is a proprietary protocol developed by Microsoft, which provides a user with a graphical interface to another computer.

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Win8.1 will fire unload and load event to the WPF application when we close and reconnect to this machine using RDC from win7 or other OS

This is a strange issue only in Win8.1. As we all know, if there is a running application in a machine, there should not be any other behavior against the application when we connect/disconnect/reconnect to this machine by Remote Desktop Connection.…
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Screen capture with C# and Remote Desktop problems

I have a C sharp console application that captures a screenshot of a MS Word document several times. It works great, but when I place this application on a remote windows XP machine it works fine whilst I am remoted in i.e. my remote desktop is…
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What exactly is lxcbr0?

When I do ifconfig in terminal, I see lxcbr0 on. Upon googling I see that its like a Vmware. Is it this set-up by default because I did not set it up. Since its on, does this mean someone has remote access to my computer?
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Keymap issues with NX from Mac OS X Lion to Ubuntu

I have issues with the keymap of my NX session being garbled. I have a Macbook Air running OS X Lion. I use OpenNX to start a session with an Ubuntu server running FreeNX. The session type is Gnome. My keymap is very off (eg. w gives =, delete gives…
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Developing via Remote Desktop

Has anybody any successful remarks about having a team working via Remote Desktop? In many workplaces, we put end users via Citrix and the applications on a central, powerful server. Sometimes the clients are in the same building as the server, but…
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Using Twitter as a mechanism to remote control applications?

I was brainstorming interesting usages of Twitter and came up with the following: An application can use it as a call home mechanism An application that has an invalid license could broadcast its location A software company could use it as a remote…
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pass windows 10 touchpad gestures to remote desktop

I was just wondering if it's possible (even with a third party software) to pass the touchpad gestures from a laptop running windows 10 to a pc (no touchpad available) using RD. I`m interested especially in passing the swipe with four fingers…
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Swing using lots of CPU when calling repaint in a minimized RDP session

I'm observing some weird behavior with Java 8 (several versions, in particular 1.8.0_111) when running a Swing app in a VM. The VM is a Windows 10 machine running in VMware that I am remote-desktoping into. I have not tried to do this with an actual…
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qwinsta --"Error [5] - Access is denied"

I am getting the "access is denied" error even though I have no problem connecting with Remote Desktop Connection. My computer is Win7, the targets are WinXP or Server 2003. Perhaps I am specifying the SERVER name incorrectly: qwinsta…
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Automating remote desktop connection

We use many remote desktops in our development environment and there are many servers deployed in multiple environments. It is tedious to remember their IP addresses, usernames, and passwords. I want to write a small utility with buttons on it. When…
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Does an RDP client library under Linux exist?

Are there any libraries for connecting as a client via Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in Linux? The language used is secondary to the issue of existence. Any mainstream language would do (e.g. C++, Perl, Java, Ruby, PHP, Python), and even less…
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How to admin a remote Windows Server with a command line interface?

When I was a Linux admin I could do anything from the SSH command line. Now, as a Windows admin, I have to deal with the Windows Remote Desktop graphical interface, which I found to be inefective (slow) and hard to automate tasks in it. a) Can I…
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Scrolling in Microsoft Remote Desktop on a Mac w/ Magic Trackpad 2

I'm experiencing wonky behavior using a Mac to remote into a Windows 7 PC using Microsoft's Remote Desktop app for the Mac, and using a Magic Trackpad 2 as my primary input device. The problems arise primarily when scrolling in various applications…
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Chrome remote desktop AND android emulator

I remote(chrome remote) to my desktop which runs android studio. When I try to run the emulator from android studio, i see the window with the virtual device open. But the device doesn't power on. This is not the behavior when I use the desktop…
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Detect source of remote desktop connection

This question tells me how to detect a remote desktop session. Do anybody know if it's possible to find out from where the remote connection was initialized?
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