Re: [rdesktop-users] rdesktop -current & xp

[Jukka M. <jm...@py...>]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 04:54:11PM +1000, Matt Chapman wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 08:18:11PM +0300, Jukka Marin wrote:
> > I have problems with the keyboard: left shift and altgr keys are not working,
> > but I _think_ I can figure this out by studying the keymap stuff.
> 
> I have the same problem if I don't have an appropriate keymap installed.
> Peter, can you fix this?

Peter helped me during the weekend: I started using the Swedish keymap
(which seems to work pretty well in Finland, too (the Finnish keymap had
several missing keycodes)) and this problem is now history.

> > Another problem is that when I move objects in the cad, they leave traces
> > behind.  It seems that rdesktop keeps adding new stuff to the image, but
> > never erases anything (until I tell the cad to redraw the screen), so I end
> > up with thousands of ghost objects on screen (I think I get a screenshot if
> > that helps).
> 
> I don't have your CAD package so I can't reproduce it :)  

I'll check if a demo version is available.  (It is, but I don't know if it's
freely distributable.)

> If you can configure with --enable-debug and give me a subset of the output
> when each problem occurs that would be helpful.

I'll try this.  I'm just afraid that it will produce lots of output :)
but it would be great to get a visible mouse pointer.. ;-)

> The problem is that the "full-screen mode", just like xvncviewer's full-screen
> mode, overrides the window manager by design.

Oh, I see.

> I'd suggest just running
> rdesktop with the geometry of your desktop, and possibly telling your window
> manager not to decorate it.

This is worth trying.  I hope kde supports this (it seems to lack several
simple things that were in old fvwm versions).

Would it be possible to tell rdesktop to "pass through" a certain key
combination.. err, I see that it would be more than that to get it
co-operating with the window manager.. sigh.

  -jm