Rdesktop as a local app

HOW-TO use rdesktop with LTSP

LTSP ships with an rdesktop package. This rdesktop can be run as a local app, through a screen script. All you need to do is specify:

[ws001]
    SCREEN_01 = rdesktop <args>

This will cause rdesktop to be run as a full screen application, and it will connect directly to a Windows server.

You may use Winbind to integrate user accounts between windows and linux transparently.

-- CarlosUrbieta - 06 Jan 2005

Keyboard problems?

Problem: some keys on the keyboard don't work: the middle arrow keys, the middle insert, delete, etc. keys

Cause: rdesktop is looking for it's keymaps under /usr/local/share and they are found under /usr/share (looks like someone used the wrong --prefix when compiling rdesktop.)

Fix: create /usr/local and link /usr/share to /usr/local/share.

Thanks to Dan Hrabarchuk in this posting

why not using tsclient for the gui?

Also best fix for this class of problems with keyboard is use RawCode^? from keyboard. See description of complex patch for rdesktop 1.5.0 Rdesktop http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1574223&group_id=24366&atid=381349