Technical Notes

Note: Reflection X 2008 R1 Help is installed in English only. Reflection X 2008 R1 SP1 Help is also available in Japanese.

Starting with Reflection X 2008, you can suspend, or "leave" your session with an X client instead of terminating it. When you rejoin your session, either at work or from home, your X client application is immediately available. As a supplement to this feature, Reflection also provides session persistence. When you enable either of the two most advanced Session persistence options, Remote or Remote with fault tolerance, your session is held in memory on network servers and remains immediately available — even if your workstation loses power.

For more information about using session persistence, see the Reflection X Help topic: http://www.attachmate.com/docs/reflection/rx2008/R1/Help/ht_session_persistence.htm.

With Reflection X 2008, you can share your sessions with other session users, enabling them to see your X desktop and applications. You can also join sessions that other users have made available for sharing. You can even configure a session so that another session user can take control of it.

For more information about sharing a session with other users, see the Reflection X Help topic: http://www.attachmate.com/docs/reflection/rx2008/R1/Help/ht_share_session.htm.

Load balancing is one of the benefits of running distributed sessions. In a distributed session environment, Reflection X 2008 has been installed on more than one computer, thus creating multiple server nodes. When a user initiates a session, the session is run on the least-loaded server node.

If you're connecting over a low bandwidth or high latency connection, the Reflection X patent-pending compression technology optimizes performance by caching and compressing X protocol, and by eliminating redundant round-trips for certain types of X protocol.

For more information about compression in Reflection X 2008, see the Reflection X Help topic: http://www.attachmate.com/docs/reflection/rx2008/R1/Help/ov_compression.htm.

The Secure Shell protocol provides a secure alternative to Telnet and other unsecured protocols commonly used to connect to X Windows hosts. Secure Shell connections require both server and user authentication, and all communications pass between hosts over an encrypted communication channel. New Reflection X client sessions are configured to use Secure Shell by default, and X Manager also includes tools for managing host and user keys.

For more information about setting up Secure Shell, see the Reflection X Help topic: http://www.attachmate.com/docs/reflection/rx2008/R1/Help/ov_userkeys_hosts_ac.htm.

Client applications with dimensions that extend into negative display coordinates can now be fully displayed instead of being truncated.