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willplaice: The audio is distorted, I guess, because the libraries to get the audio from RDP aren't efficient enough for the tablets. Like I said earlier, audio works. It doesn't work well enough to be practical, but it does work. The main reason I gave audio options was for the ability to turn it off, but I put the option to play it on the tablet because it more or less worked. Since I am don't really know any C, and know even less about audio handling in RDP, I'm not going to do anything about the unoptimized code. If someone else wants to take a look at it, and makes it better, I will gladly give them credit for their work if they let me include it ;-)

bluesubaru: I really should start doing something like that... .deb files allow for a changelog (which I haven't been using in pyrdesktop), but the Application Manager doesn't show the changelog in a deb file...

1.3.2-3 fixes the save and delete buttons, and adds icons to the menu items. I forgot to add that to the main post... I'll go do that now :-P

[edit]I'm making progress on getting the rdesktop windows in the taskbar. It seems that if you have the old rdesktop frontend installed, it shows up... So, I'll look into that...

[edit2] Now, I've narrowed it down to one file. It seems that if you have rdesktop.desktop from the old frontend in /usr/share/applications/hildon, then the windows will show up, no problem... without that file... nothing... Any code gurus know why this is? Can you help me fix it? ;-)

[edit3] OK... I just need to include a .desktop file and some icons in the rdesktop-cli deb... How do I do that...?

I'm not sure what's wrong, but pyrDesktop just never connects for me... I've tried at various different versions to see if it would work, but everytime it just gives me a "Sorry, there was an error in the remote desktop connection. Connection refused." error....

Running the latest diablo, latest pyRdesktop and WinXP professional

I'm fairly certain the settings are correct as i'm using the exact same settings as when i was using 0.4diablo1 rdesktop, and that one can connect no problem (although i need to run it 3 times for it to connect every time)...

Running rdesktop.py in xterm and connecting as usual gets me a fairly standard "how to use cli rdesktop" output, with the last 2 lines being:

-4: use RDP version 4
-5: use RDP version 5 (default)


any idea what's going on here?

Does any of your information (username, password or domain) contain a space? If so, that would be the culprit. For a temporary fix, just put quotes around the item that has a space. Ex: if my username was True Journals, I would put "True Journals" for the username. I'll include a true fix in the next version...

On another note, I'm just about to test a fix for the taskbar bug... Hopefully a new version of rdesktop-cli will be in extras soon...

rdesktop-cli version 1.6.2-maemo1 is currently in extras! All users are STRONGLY recomended to upgrade! This version finally fixes taskbar issues!

ahah! that would be the case... guess i wasted a few hours scratching my head while trying to figure out what's wrong

you are awesome, thanks!

Problem:

Use rDesktop and log in to a server. Walk away for a minute and allow the screen to automatically shut down. Tap the screen: rdesktop is gone. Did it exit? No. Run top in an XTerm window and there's your rdesktop process, happily running away in the background eating up 50% of your N800's CPU cycles.

Eek!

Confirmed as a bug, thanks. I'm working on a fix now... this is a pretty big one, so it's in top priority currently.

Wow! After a whole bunch of trial and error, I finally got a good fix for this bug! I've just pushed rdesktop-cli version 1.6.3-maemo1 to maemo extras, so it should show up there in about an hour. This new version correctly handles the power button being pressed, and the screen going black. If the power button is pressed, your session will come out of fullscreen, and be put in the taskbar, so you can see the power menu. If the screen goes black, the session will also come out of fullscreen.

Now, back to work on the frontend... :-P

Fixed! Way to go!

I'll second that.

New version looks good!

1.6.3-maemo1 isn't showing up for me as an available update under chinook. I tried both apt-get update and refresh application catalog in the app manager gui. I currently have 1.6.2 installed.