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
>
>
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