[Bug 2632] Access X sessions from RDP dumb terminals

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------- Additional Comments From duncan at innes.net  2005-03-02 11:34 -------
I'll postulate and hypothesise for a few lines as I've got a few minutes spare
at work.

If this were to be a "go-er", would the best method be:

1) Create an RDP listener service.  This would start up a discrete X-server on
the server for each connection.  These X-servers would be modified from the
normal to perform the translation from X11 to RDP.  Downside is a new process
for each RDP connection.  Upside is leaving the X-client completely untouched.

2) Modify the X-client to be able to talk natively to the RDP sessions. 
Downside is having to modify the X-client software.

A caveat to my musings:  I'm not convinced I've got the X-server X-client
terminology the right way round (it's been a LONG time since Uni).  The X-server
draws the display while the X-client runs on the machine and sends the "draw"
commands to the X-server?  Don't shoot me if I'm wrong.

Also, if this has been proposed and thrown out previously - sorry.  I did look
around for several weeks before I came to submit this enhancement.          
     
     
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