Re: [rdesktop-users] 1.8.2 - No Cursor w/ Windows Server 2012 R2

[George S. <ge...@mh...>]

On 6/26/2014 10:02 AM, George Sexton wrote:
> I'm trying rdesktop on a Raspberry pi using the RPi Thin Client with 
> rdesktop version 1.8.2
>
> When I connect to a Windows Server 2012 R2 server running Remote 
> Desktop Session. I can connect and everything appears fine except the 
> cursor.
>
> The cursor is a black I-Beam all the time. On the default background, 
> this is pretty much invisible.
>
> I also downloaded the 1.8.2 source onto a OpenSUSE 12.3 machine and 
> compiled rdesktop. I observe the same results. The command line I used is:
>
> ./rdesktop -g 1024x768 -a 16 -d mydomain -u myuser -x b -a 16 servername
>
> I also tried -x l and that didn't make any difference.
>
> I would really like to use rdesktop, but I've got to have a cursor. If 
> there are any switches I could use, or if this is fixed in github, 
> please let me know.
>

I looked at this some more, and it's kind of inconsistent. I can't 
reproduce it exactly at will, but I can see it happening a lot.

What I'm seeing is that the cursor is getting "stuck" in various modes. 
Sometimes the mode is the invisible black i-beam. Other times, it's a 
pointer with an hour glass. If I go in and out of Excel, I can make it 
sometimes be a row-resize, or a down-arrow, or large plus sign. Once I 
had made it a down-arrow, and then I went into Firefox, and it changed 
to the ibeam. I could get then change it back to something else in Excel...


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