[winswitch] Interesting thought on Xpra for Windoes

[Antoine Martin]

On 05/04/2019 22:57, Lonnie Cumberland via shifter-users wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I am slowly working on a project in which I am going to be using Xpra and
> have been spending a huge amount of time researching what is currently out
> there and how it could possibly be used within my project.
> 
> To that end, what I was looking for is a simple remote protocol
> seamless-based solution and Xpra seems to be that solution. For my project,
> I am interested in not only sending windows from Linux hosts to Windows,
> but also from Windows to Linux while also supporting all of the nice
> features that Xpra already has available.
Seamless mode is not supported with MS Windows servers at present.

> In my tests, I see that going from Linux to Windows works nicely and even
> has sound, etc..
> 
> The problem seems to be in going from Windows to Linux, but I might have an
> idea that could work and wanted to see if the group had already thought
> about it.  This idea would be to take the Xpra Windows side and add parts
> of the code from a project used in rdesktop, and others called
> "SeamlessRDP" (https://github.com/rdesktop/seamlessrdp).
Have you tried to use Seamless RDP?
The project does not seem very active, and it never worked properly when
I tried it.

> That code is in c/c++ and the part that I am thinking about is the part
> that gets the actual windows to send back via the RDP protocol, but I do
> not see why it could not instead just get the windows information and send
> it back via Xpra.  With Python and C/C++ being able to work together, I am
> trying to see if this type of solution idea might actually be possible.
Because of the usability problems with SeamlessRDP, I have never looked
into this possibility.
Assuming that SeamlessRDP can be made to work reliably on Windows-8.1 or
later, I can't see any reason why this could not be made to work with
xpra. How well remains to be seen.

Cheers
Antoine


> 
> Any thoughts?
> Best Regards,
> Lonnie
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