Rdesktop
Brian D. McGrew
brian at doubledimension.com
Wed Sep 22 16:51:49 UTC 2004
(I get version numbers confused very easily but) I think it's in Fedora
Core 1 or Core 2, there is a pretty nice front end for rdesktop. I've
used it before. But I have a shell script that does it for me. I'll
attached the script for your use.
#!/bin/sh
#
# Make sure we have all the required parameters.
#
[ "$1" = "" ] && {
echo "USAGE: $0 servername"
exit
}
#
# The remote server.
#
SERVER=$1
#
# Set the size of the display.
#
RDGEOM=800x600
XWI=xwininfo
if [ -x /usr/openwin/bin/xwininfo ];
then
XWI=/usr/openwin/bin/xwininfo
elif [ -x /usr/bin/X11/xwininfo ];
then
XWI=/usr/bin/X11/xwininfo
elif [ -x /usr/X11R6/bin/xwininfo ];
then
XWI=/usr/X11R6/bin/xwininfo
fi
if [ -x $XWI ];
then
WIDTH=`$XWI -root | grep Width |\
awk -F: '{ print $2 }' | sed -e 's/ //g'`
HEIGHT=`$XWI -root | grep Height |\
awk -F: '{ print $2 }' | sed -e 's/ //g'`
if [ $WIDTH -gt 1280 -a $HEIGHT -gt 1024 ];
then
RDGEOM=1280x1024
elif [ $WIDTH -gt 1152 -a $HEIGHT -gt 900 ];
then
RDGEOM=1152x900
elif [ $WIDTH -gt 1024 -a $HEIGHT -gt 768 ];
then
RDGEOM=1024x768
elif [ $WIDTH -gt 800 -a $HEIGHT -gt 600 ];
then
RDGEOM=800x600
else
RDGEOM=640x480
fi
else
echo "Can't find xwininfo, using 800x600 resolution."
fi
#
# Figure out the username. Should be the same as Unix login name.
# If not, you'll need to fix this to be USER=<Your Windows Login Name>.
# Regex it and convert the first charicter to uppercase (Windows likes
it)
#
set `whoami | sed -e 's/\(.\)\(.*\)/\1 \2/'`
USERNAME=`echo $1 | tr [a-z] [A-Z]`$2
#
# Where do we want the output from rdesktop sent?
#
OUTPUT_DEVICE="/dev/null"
#
# Find the program, make sure it exists and execute it.
#
PROGRAM=/usr/bin/rdesktop
[ -x /usr/local/bin/rdesktop ] && PROGRAM=/usr/local/bin/rdesktop
if [ -x $PROGRAM ];
then
$PROGRAM -u $USERNAME -g $RDGEOM $SERVER >> $OUTPUT_DEVICE &
else
echo "Can't find $PROGRAM executable!"
fi
#
# We're done.
#
exit
-brian
Brian D. McGrew { brian at doubledimension.com ||
pacemakertaker at yahoo.com }
--
> YOU! Off my planet!
On Sep 22, 2004, at 9:43 AM, Michael Scully wrote:
> Greetings fellow penguin heads:
>
> I'm using rdesktop 1.2 that comes with Enterprise 3, because I need
> to manage other Win machines around the network. This works great,
> but you
> have to specify the host you want on the command line. I was hoping
> to not
> have to have a desktop full of separate shortcuts for every host I
> want to
> attach to. Is there no front end to the rdesktop that lets you choose
> hosts, akin to how M$ lets you choose when you use their RDP client?
> Does
> 1.3 work better in this regard? I couldn't find documentation online
> about
> it.
>
> I suppose I could write a shell script launcher that prompted for
> this and then invoked rdesktop.
>
> Scully
>
>
>
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