YIPEEEEEE Congratulations, buddy! On Tuesday 14 June 2005 08:59 pm, Victor Odhner wrote: > Thanks to all for the suggestions. > > I have *arrived* with my Remote Desktop, so I don't need no stinkin > Windows no more. > > I have a 1600x1200 desktop, on a 21" monitor. Unlike the Windows Remote > Desktop, this one does not cover my Gnome toolbar, so I changed the > command line to reduce the height a little -- now I see both toolbars, > including my desktop switcher at the bottom. > > I will continue to re-visit my XP desktop, just to keep the updates and > virus and spyware scans up to date, but I will now be spending days at a > time in the Linux world, which of course means I'll be learning to > handle the little irritations like arrow-key misbehavior, so I'll be > more and more at home here. I'm over the hump! > > BTW, my rdesktop command goes like this: > rdesktop -uvictor@work.com -g1580x1140 nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn > > Installation of rdesktop took a little creativity, since it was not > distro-specific: > 1. I had to install an xorg library to provide two header files. > 2. I had to fix the Makefile with a -L linker path to Xlib. > 3. It couldn't resolve the Windows boxname, so I had to use an IP > address instead. S'arright, leases at the workplace last forever. > 4. I did the install at the ~root directory and had to relocate the > keymaps. 5. Oops - one of the Windows apps is having trouble "obtaining > keyboard ownership". Aah, that would be a conflict with an orphaned copy > of rdesktop that I started while VPN wasn't running. > > Thanks again, > > Vic > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss