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>It could also allow for *nix users to have something like RDP, which is one of the _very_ few things I actually admire about windows.

I HATE RDP. X.org was created to be net capable, you can do full desktop and window forwarding, we don't need this functionality it exists! (Especially because X.org window forwarding doesn't take screenshots)

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X does window forwarding, and I love it, but it doesn't do remote session resuming. For that, you have to fall to things like VNC, which really isn't much more than streaming video. I'm fairly certain that RDP doesn't do that. Its performance on pan-pacific connections is completely acceptable, much better than clever video streaming systems like gotomeeting or webex. I've never had the chance to try VNC across the ocean, but I'm guessing it wouldn't be as nice as RDP either.

Why do you think RDP does work by screenshot forwarding? I'm pretty certain it works by forwarding win API calls over a network, but I've never dug into the rdesktop source, so I could be completely mistaken.

There is a X proxy thingy that allows you to do session resuming just using the X protocol, but as you note it's an afterthought and not baked into the regular software an interface.

You can try FreeNX or Google's Neatx server for session resuming.

It certainly does both, but doesn't work as well enough as it should. Some of the corruption and image problems I've had on VNC also are on RDP.

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