Re: Seamless mode

Which Windows version? Windows XP is known to ignore specified alternate 
shells ("start program"), from time to time. You shold be able to see this 
problem by using the MS mstsc.exe client as well.

Rgds,
Peter

On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Victor Argüelles wrote:

> Hi, I'm sorry if this has already been asked. The list archives on
> sourceforge are horrible to navigate and I could find no search
> function.
>
> I am trying to run rdesktop in seamless mode for a Windows virtual
> machine running on kvm. What I am trying to accomplish is to run
> Photoshop and the Windows Messenger in my kde desktop as normal
> windows, without having them inside a virtual machine window taking up
> a lot of screen space. I installed the seamlessrdp shell, and I'm
> trying to run this from my debian host console:
>
> rdesktop -A -s "c:\seamlessrdp\seamlessrdpshell.exe
> C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\taskmgr.exe" terribus:3389 -u [user] -p [password]
>
> What I get is a window showing me the full desktop. According to the
> man page and the site I got the instructions from
> (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SeamlessVirtualization), I should
> have just gotten the taskmgr.exe program window, not a full desktop,
> which is what I'm trying to avoid.
>
> Maybe I've got this all wrong, but I've noticed that every time I get
> stuck like this there's some obvious little thing I am missing, so
> obvious that nobody even mentions it. Is there something I should be
> doing? Is it a problem with kvm or qemu? Does this only work with
> VirtualBox?
>
> Thank you for your help!
>
> -- 
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