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■ Menu and window animation: Select to allow menu and
window animation.
■ Themes: Select to allow themes.
■ Bitmap caching: Select to allow bitmap caching, which places
commonly used bitmaps in a file on the thin client. This process
improves performance by minimizing the amount of display
information that must be passed over a connection.
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Depending upon connection configuration, selecting Bitmap caching
may or may not improve performance.
■ Use persistent bitmap caching: Select to allow persistent bitmap
caching, which stores bitmaps that are sent from the server on
permanent media, such as a hard disk. Upon connection, the thin
client informs the server of the bitmaps it has so that the server
does not have to resend them.
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Depending upon connection configuration, selecting use persistent
itmap caching may or may not improve performance.
■ Use protocol compression: Select to enable protocol
compression, which makes commumication between computers
faster.
■ Use BackingStore of X server if available: Select to enable
BackingStore. A BackingStore contains the set of operations that
can be performed on a JNDI Attributes. Java Naming and
Directory Interface (JDNI) is a programming interface (API) that
allows you to connect Java programs to naming and directory
services such as DNS, LDAP, and NDS.
■ Use these additional options: Select and populate to use
additional rdesktop options.
For additional information, please visit the rdesktop Web site at:
http://www.rdesktop.org