Access X sessions from RDP dumb terminals
Submitted by Duncan Innes
Assigned to Xorg Project Team
Description
Is it anywhere near feasible to create an RDP layer to the X protocol?
I ask because of the sheer number of dumb terminals that run only RDP connections. For companies that use these terminals, the cost of migration to Linux would have to include replacing all their RDP terminals with those that run X11.
The correct terminology has escaped me since my Uni days, but . . .
Can an interface be constructed so that the dumb RDP terminal can connect to the X server and be presented with the normal desktop via it's own protocols.
Perhaps it's not technically feasible. Perhaps it's been dismissed before. I just thought I'd ask.
The perverse flip-side of this is that the dumb terminals we use here are actually running Linux as their OS, but only allowing RDP connections.