Re: [rdesktop-users] flashing, scrolling in rdesktop/Thinstation

[Ken C. <kc...@co...>]

Stephen Bakerman wrote:

>I'm using Thinstation 2.1rc3 which has rdesktop 1.3.1. I am running 3
>Windows 2000 SP4 and 1 Windows 2003 Terminal Servers. I do not have this
>problem with the MS RDP client. Server RDP version is 5.0 and 5.2. Users
>experience slowness in what I think is an image drawing/decompressing
>issue. In IE for example scrolling the page exposes a "clipping" effect.
>In MS Word users experience high latency between scroll requests and
>image drawing in that if they click once the word scrolls to the bottom
>of the document. When typing in an HTML email message, the text of the
>message flashes continuously. The same thing happens in IE 6. I do not
>have this problem when using MS RDP client and WinXP or Win9x. I have
>tried turning on "Force Offscreen Compositing" which was little help. I
>am not sure if this is a setting or a problem with Rdesktop but I am not
>sure what to change to fix it. Another user using PXES is having the
>same problem.
>
>Does anyone have a solution?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Stephen Bakerman
>  
>
Download the CVS version of rdesktop (compile and run).  Many problems 
are solved with the CVS version  (like Experience level).

I use rdesktop-cvs in this same setup with Thinstation.


Ken Cobler