MrAnderson69uk
2010-10-19T11:25:23Z
Hi Tim,

So, I've been running a number of tabs on one screen and usually a single tab on a detached floating panel (both screens maxmised to full screen with auto-hide menu bar). All works well after creating the detached panel and then dragging one of the remote sessions connected with the others when launching RD Tabs (the open favorites option on start up).

So, the problem I've been seeing is when I've dropped one of the remote sessions and then opened a new one - login credentials are saved so no interaction with session to login. The screen background is shown (black) but no other update to the screen happens unless I move the mouse to the top of the screen which causes the Menu bar to un-hide resulting in a scale of the remote session - I'm assuming the scale down of the remote session forces a re-draw.

It's a bit frustrating and there's no difference whether I re-open the session on the main tab panel or the detached one. It's not intermittent once it's happened once. And it seems to happen after using RD Tabs for some time.

I'm not sure if you're aware of this or what causes it. I'm going to try a few things like see if it's a large image (region of screen capture from the RD Tabs file menu) in the Clipboard buffer, maybe its closing a tab on the detached floating panel.

Could it perhaps be related to running the sessions for days and occasionally have their connections dropped (VPN timeouts etc.) and then re-connect the same tab ?

I was reading about the chaining of clipboards mentioned in another thread and wondered if that was the cause. I even created a shortcut to a batch file that kills rdpclip.exe in an effort to clear/reset the broken chain, but this means knowing which RDP session it's broken at!

Could it perhaps be related to running the sessions for days and occasionally have their connections dropped (VPN timeouts etc.) and then re-connect the same tab ?

I've also just run the installer v2.1.24 to do a repair install just in case something has gone wrong, not that is should!

Cheers
Mr A
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