On Wed, Sep 16, 2026 at 3:55 PM Christopher Cook <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > We are connecting remotely into Windows kiosks. We use Apache Guacamole to > connect to Windows PCs via RDP. Does anyone know how we can setup screen > blanking so that when we connect to the Windows PC, the monitor that is > connected to goes blank? We are willing to switch from RDP to VNC if that > will help our cause. > Disabling the keyboard would be a nice to have as well. > > I do not believe that this is possible with RDP - Guacamole works the same as any other RDP client, and, to my knowledge, RDP in general does not support the ability to block/blank the local screen when a remote connection is made. There are some VNC servers that support this, and I believe the configuration for it is on the VNC server side and does not require anything special on the client-side. I believe UltraVNC supports it, and I'm sure some of the others do, as well. That said, VNC doesn't perform as well as RDP, and, by default, doesn't do any encryption, so you'll want to make sure you factor both of those in (guacd needs to be "close" to the remote systems, network-wise, and you should implement some VNC encryption of some sort). -Nick >
