A method includes maintaining a full-screen, integrated desktop environment on a remote machine for display to a user by a local machine, the desktop environment providing integrated access both to resources provided by the local machine and resources provided by the remote machine. In another aspect, the method includes transmitting, by the remote agent, to the local agent, window attribute data associated with a window displaying a plurality of icons and graphical data representing the window. The method includes displaying, by the second agent, at least a portion of the received output data in a local window on a desktop environment on the local machine. In still another aspect, a method provides, by a remote machine, access to functionality associated with a resource executing on a local machine.