[WebTop] rDesktop 1.7.0 for WebTop

FallenAngelUK · Jul 9, 2011

rDesktop 1.7.0
What is rDesktop?
rDesktop is a terminal services client for Linux - it will allow you to connect to a terminal services session of any Windows machine with Remote Desktop enabled.

This is a newer release of rDesktop than is available in the Debian repos.

Prerequisites

Access to a terminal from WebTop
A small amount of Linux shell knowledge

Usage

Copy the attached binary to somewhere on your device (I suggest /usr/bin, or somewhere else on your PATH)
Open a terminal
Enter the following:
Code:
```
rdesktop -g workarea -a16 -z -xm -P -0 <server>
```
You can use the following switches:
- -g workarea - sets the window size to the desktop size
- -f - makes the session fullscreen (ie. on top of all current chrome)
- -a16 - sets 16bit colour depth (valid values are 8, 15, 16 and 24)
- -z - enables compression (leave this enabled!)
- -xm - sets the 'experience' level to 'modem' (valid values are modem, broadband or LAN)
- -0 - causes you to be logged in to the console session (same as the /admin switch for mstsc)

I've found this to be invaluable for getting onto my desktop and servers at work. Now to see if I can get rid of that bloody awful Avant Window Manager and just use FluxBox

Mgamerz · Jul 9, 2011

I don't have a lapdock, but its compiled for arm/tegra?

Sent from my Motorola Atrix 4G on the network with the most backhaul, whatever that is. This post might have errors as I hate touchscreen keyboards.

paravorheim · Jul 9, 2011

GUI support?

I know rdesktop is only terminal based, but is there a sort of add-on to it that allows for a graphical representation of the screen, much like rdp clients in the Android market? that would be far more useful for my purposes, although this is a great step in that direction.

byted · Jul 11, 2011

paravorheim said:
I know rdesktop is only terminal based, but is there a sort of add-on to it that allows for a graphical representation of the screen, much like rdp clients in the Android market? that would be far more useful for my purposes, although this is a great step in that direction.

An easy solution is to simply create a shell script and then specify the server.

EG: ./rdp.sh <server>

Much prettier than having to type all the strings.

krkeegan · Jul 11, 2011

paravorheim said:
I know rdesktop is only terminal based, but is there a sort of add-on to it that allows for a graphical representation of the screen

grdesktop is a graphical front end. It works on hacked webtops such as webtop2sd or the debian chroot mod.

paravorheim · Jul 11, 2011

krkeegan said:
grdesktop is a graphical front end. It works on hacked webtops such as webtop2sd or the debian chroot mod.

Thanks! you just saved me $1000!
If I couldn't run some programs like matlab and mathematica, I would have had to but a laptop for classes.

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FallenAngelUK · Jul 14, 2011

Mgamerz said:
I don't have a lapdock, but its compiled for arm/tegra?

Yes, it was compiled on the Atrix itself (that took a while...).
I use the chroot method on my atrix (I like keeping things seperate!), so this is probably only useful for those of us based on Debian (don't know what version is currently in the ubuntu repos)

The grdesktop package from the debian repos will work just fine with this binary.

I might even start a repo just for webtop... anyone think that would be useful?

paravorheim · Jul 14, 2011

YES

FallenAngelUK said:
Yes, it was compiled on the Atrix itself (that took a while...).
I use the chroot method on my atrix (I like keeping things seperate!), so this is probably only useful for those of us based on Debian (don't know what version is currently in the ubuntu repos)

The grdesktop package from the debian repos will work just fine with this binary.

I might even start a repo just for webtop... anyone think that would be useful?

That would be very useful, actually. Although I'm terrible at using Unix OSes and terminals in general haha.

humzat · Jul 17, 2011

this is awesome..almost as good as citrix xendesktop...who needs that though when this works so very well...one question did you get your sound working on the lapdock? when i try to enable sound via -r sound:local it says driver not found or smething like that..basically no matter what settings i use even via the gui tools or the cli..i get the same error and no sound....is there any way to get the sound to work?

FallenAngelUK · Jul 17, 2011

If you're using the chroot method, it may be that you need to add some packages.

I haven't tried it myself, but I remember seeing a thread somewhere related to getting RythmBox working - this involved sorting out some missing audio-related stuff.

babcocca · Jul 18, 2011

How is this better than the free 2X client for Android?

krkeegan · Jul 18, 2011

Well it runs in the webtop, so you get a much larger screen. Sure you could expand the android in window screen, but that doesn't increase the pixel count.

paravorheim · Jul 19, 2011

full-screen resolution grdesktop

Thanks for getting this working FallenAngel!
How would one use the xterm session to set grdesktop to represent the desktop as full screen on the laptop dock? 640 x 480 ( I think? ) just isn't cutting it.

humzat · Jul 20, 2011

add in -f

into your command line

paravorheim said:
Thanks for getting this working FallenAngel!
How would one use the xterm session to set grdesktop to represent the desktop as full screen on the laptop dock? 640 x 480 ( I think? ) just isn't cutting it.

humzat · Jul 20, 2011

any input on getting the sound to work?

humzat said:
this is awesome..almost as good as citrix xendesktop...who needs that though when this works so very well...one question did you get your sound working on the lapdock? when i try to enable sound via -r sound:local it says driver not found or smething like that..basically no matter what settings i use even via the gui tools or the cli..i get the same error and no sound....is there any way to get the sound to work?

paravorheim · Jul 20, 2011

humzat said:
add in -f

into your command line

I think I tried that, but it didn't work. Ill try again when I get home. Is the command grdesktop -f or after running grdesktop then do -f?

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FallenAngelUK · Jul 23, 2011

To connect to a server and run it fullscreen, try:

Code:

rdesktop -f -a16 -z -xm -P -0 <server>

FallenAngelUK · Jul 23, 2011

To connect to a server and run it fullscreen, try:

Code:

rdesktop -f -a16 -z -xm -P -0 <server>

refer to the first post for command line args

idan_mo · Jul 23, 2011

i get an error:
"ERROR: Failed to open keymap en-us
ERROR: Connection refused"

i set all the remote desktop ok and all the settings ok, what was my mistake?

krkeegan · Jul 25, 2011

First, thanks for compiling this. I can't imagine how long it took on the Atrix.

Second, I am using this with the lapdock and the arrow keys, home, insert, page up, and the like are not working. I am assuming this is a keymap issue?? Any one else having these issues? Does anyone have the keymap that I need?

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