Remote desktop into an existing Linux session never worked quite right. Claude rewrote xrdp: connect, pick display :0 or :1, sign in, done. No more fiddling with x11vnc.
Result Drop in, pick a display, sign in with PAM
“Yesterday I had claude rewrite xrdp to allow me to remote into my desktop session without having to deal with x11vnc, it lets me drop in, pick :0 or :1, auth's with PAM and gets me in.”
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Had Claude rewrite xrdp so they can remote into their existing desktop session: connect, pick display :0 or :1, authenticate with PAM, and get straight in. They keep their own patches for i3, vim, xpdf, bash and other tools the same way.
It does what they had always wanted from xrdp and never got working quite right. They find AI one-shots many small problems like this: reading an unfamiliar codebase, finding the relevant function and writing the change.
I want [open-source tool] to [behaviour it doesn't support]. Read its source, find where [relevant feature] is handled, and write the smallest patch that adds it. Keep it as a separate patch file I can reapply on new upstream versions, and give me build and test instructions.
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