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After months of hard work in my spare time, I'm happy to announce the first beta release of the NVDA Remote Desktop add-on! More details here: https://nvda-addons.groups.io/g/nvda-addons/topic/announcing_first_beta_release/97545996

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Leonard de Ruijter
Leonard de Ruijter
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@glaroc True, but that has a different purpose than this one. NVDA Remote is a standalone solution while this add-on adds support for remote protocols like Microsoft Remote Desktop, Citrix and VMware Horizon.
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bgt lover
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remote desktop? do you mean something that supports the remote desktop protocol? If not, what's the difference between this and nvda remote?
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Leonard de Ruijter
Leonard de Ruijter
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@bgtlover Yes. Data flows over a virtual channel in the remote desktop connection, not a separate channel that requires a server or opening a port like with NVDA Remote.
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Leonard de Ruijter
Leonard de Ruijter
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@pvagner @bgtlover Thanks! There was already a paid solution for this, but open source should be fully open source!
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bgt lover
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@pvagner indeed! I'm excited enough that I might setup a windows vm to test it.
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bgt lover
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@pvagner I did make a windows vm, however the problem is that I don't remember enough windows stuff to get to the point where I start a remote desktop session, I keep reaching for a terminal that's not there.
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Leonard de Ruijter
Leonard de Ruijter
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@bgtlover @pvagner You need to enable remote desktop support first. Search for remote in the windows settings (windows+i)
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Leonard de Ruijter
Leonard de Ruijter
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Really grateful for the help of @twynn who got the add-on working with VMware Horizon, though it needs some polishing due to occational connection dropouts. Nonetheless, this is amazing!
@Timothy Wynn
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Timothy Wynn
Timothy Wynn
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No, thank you for such a useful add-on. It's too bad their phasing out VDI here pretty soon as they're providing company devices instead.
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Leonard de Ruijter
Leonard de Ruijter
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@twynn Well, having a company device is usually better than VDI IMO, especially for blind people who need their screen reading software to work in these environments.
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Timothy Wynn
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Oh for sure, and I look forward to it, but it's funny that your add-on started existing at the tail end of my VDI use. It means that stress-testing probably won't happen on my end, though even when I was using VDI, it was just for payroll purposes. Everything else I used external services which are available outside their intranet. Best practices it wasn't, but it definitely kept me more efficient.
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