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Re:IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol by j16sdiz on Friday March 21, 2025 @12:39PM (#43437823)
I thought RDP is highly coupled with GDI. How could it translate native wayland to GDI?
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Re:IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol by awakecoding on Friday March 21, 2025 @02:15PM (#43439195)
The RDP GDI messages are from RDP6, graphical messages have changed many times over in the versions of RDP that followed. Would you be surprised to learn that WSLg uses a FreeRDP server hooked to a Wayland compositor running in the Linux guest, and that the RDP client in the Windows host is MSRDC in a special RemoteApp mode? In theory someone could build a similar RDP server using IronRDP
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Re:IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol by p_ing on Friday March 21, 2025 @02:06PM (#43439087)
That is one of the extensions, in theory others could be built. RemoteFX is an extension as is the (more normal today) Desktop Composition Extension.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocol...

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Re:IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol by awakecoding on Friday March 21, 2025 @02:12PM (#43439163)
The Desktop Composition extension was never used in practice, check the date on the spec - the last update was in 2017. I don't know the whole story behind the scenes but the feature got pulled early.
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Re:IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol by tracker1 on Friday March 21, 2025 @02:35PM (#43439433)
Possibly a patent threat.
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