Wed, 10 Jun 2009

Search xrdp know how

Dear Lazyweb,

I often need to access my workplace's desktop from Windows machines. xrdp comes in handy, since it allows to connect via the usual remote desktop available on all of our Windows computers (in contrast to putty or an X-Server).

While it works very well, I have two problems with that, and haven't found any solution so far. First problem is how to choose the locale for my remote session. xrdp seems to use posix and I haven't found a setting for that, yet.

The bigger Problems is, that in contrast to the usual remote desktop behaviour, xrdp will start a new session instead of picking an existing up. Well, actually I don't need that feature. But what I want is to use some Mozilla applications which just refuse to start, since there is already an instance running.

It seems I could just use two separate profiles for all Mozilla applications, but I actually don't like that solution, since I would need to synchronize settings I do in my profiles by hand.

So, dear lazyweb, is there a solution for running Mozilla applications via xrdp in a convenient way?

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