gogocons Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 I have been using Windows Remote Desktop to remote into my HTPC and handle LaunchBox management tasks. I seem to be having an issue where most of the time the checkboxes are not showing up where they are supposed to. I'm not sure if this is a fault of the LaunchBox software or the RDP. I have seen them on occasion so it seems to be intermittent in either case. Picture attached for example Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 I'll forward this to Jason and see if he has any clue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gogocons Posted March 20, 2017 Author Share Posted March 20, 2017 I seem to have found what makes this problem intermittent. If I power on the PC and only login via Remote Desktop, I get no checkboxes. If I power on the PC and login locally and then later on login via Remote Desktop, I have checkboxes displaying in Remote Desktop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 That's... weird. If that's the case I don't know if there is anything Jason could do. I wondered if it was a display issue with LaunchBox, but that leads me to believe not and it's just the remote desktop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 Hmm, seems to be a Windows or an RDP bug; that's weird. Sadly, I'm not sure if there's anything we can do to fix that @gogocons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gogocons Posted March 21, 2017 Author Share Posted March 21, 2017 (edited) Well it's not game breaking just a slight annoyance, thanks for looking into it at least! Since we are somewhat on the topic, I am curious, is there someway to default my import settings to check/uncheck certain fields? If not, is this a feature planned for the future? Edited March 21, 2017 by gogocons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 I've seen similar things with Remote Desktop. I think it works when you first locally log into the system because you are probably connecting up to a local console session, which seems to act more normally with some apps. For example, in a pure remote desktop non console session, a lot of apps with system tray icons don't work because those apps aren't developed to support remote desktop non console sessions, and you end up having no tray icon at all. But for the issue with LB and checkboxes, that's weird, although I have seen abnormal things with application gui's in remote desktop sessions too. If you don't login to the system locally first, you might try remote desktop-ing in with the admin switch (at least there used to be such a switch in older RDP versions, but I'm not sure lately). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 @gogocons, you can try typing /admin after the ip or name you are using to connect to in the remote desktop app. So, as an example, if you connect to 192.168.1.5, you can try putting this in 192.168.1.5 /admin . It should get you a true console session as opposed to a non console non 0 session ID. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gogocons Posted March 24, 2017 Author Share Posted March 24, 2017 (edited) That fix seemed to work the second time I tried it but not the first. May just be an intermittent issue altogether. Edited March 25, 2017 by gogocons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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