Re: Rdesktop

["Brian D. McGrew" <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(I get version numbers confused very easily but) I think it's in Fedora 
Core 1 or Core 2, there is a pretty nice front end for rdesktop.  I've 
used it before.  But I have a shell script that does it for me.  I'll 
attached the script for your use.

#!/bin/sh

#
# Make sure we have all the required parameters.
#
[ "$1" = "" ] && {
    echo "USAGE: $0 servername"
    exit
}

#
# The remote server.
#
SERVER=$1

#
# Set the size of the display.
#
RDGEOM=800x600
XWI=xwininfo
if [ -x /usr/openwin/bin/xwininfo ];
then
    XWI=/usr/openwin/bin/xwininfo
elif [ -x /usr/bin/X11/xwininfo ];
then
     XWI=/usr/bin/X11/xwininfo
elif [ -x /usr/X11R6/bin/xwininfo ];
then
    XWI=/usr/X11R6/bin/xwininfo
fi

if [ -x $XWI ];
then
    WIDTH=`$XWI -root | grep Width |\
	    awk -F: '{ print $2 }' | sed -e 's/ //g'`
    HEIGHT=`$XWI -root | grep Height |\
	    awk -F: '{ print $2 }' | sed -e 's/ //g'`

    if [ $WIDTH -gt 1280 -a $HEIGHT -gt 1024 ];
    then
	RDGEOM=1280x1024
    elif [ $WIDTH -gt 1152 -a $HEIGHT -gt 900 ];
    then
	RDGEOM=1152x900
    elif [ $WIDTH -gt 1024 -a $HEIGHT -gt 768 ];
    then
	RDGEOM=1024x768
    elif [ $WIDTH -gt 800 -a $HEIGHT -gt 600 ];
    then
	RDGEOM=800x600
    else
	RDGEOM=640x480
    fi
else
    echo "Can't find xwininfo, using 800x600 resolution."
fi

#
# Figure out the username.  Should be the same as Unix login name.
# If not, you'll need to fix this to be USER=<Your Windows Login Name>.
# Regex it and convert the first charicter to uppercase (Windows likes 
it)
#
set `whoami | sed -e 's/\(.\)\(.*\)/\1 \2/'`
USERNAME=`echo $1 | tr [a-z] [A-Z]`$2

#
# Where do we want the output from rdesktop sent?
#
OUTPUT_DEVICE="/dev/null"

#
# Find the program, make sure it exists and execute it.
#
PROGRAM=/usr/bin/rdesktop
[ -x /usr/local/bin/rdesktop ] && PROGRAM=/usr/local/bin/rdesktop

if [ -x $PROGRAM ];
then
    $PROGRAM -u $USERNAME -g $RDGEOM $SERVER >> $OUTPUT_DEVICE &
else
    echo "Can't find $PROGRAM executable!"
fi

#
# We're done.
#
exit


-brian

Brian D. McGrew		{ brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx || 
pacemakertaker@xxxxxxxxx }
--
> YOU!  Off my planet!
On Sep 22, 2004, at 9:43 AM, Michael Scully wrote:

> Greetings fellow penguin heads:
>
> 	I'm using rdesktop 1.2 that comes with Enterprise 3, because I need
> to manage other Win machines around the network.  This works great, 
> but you
> have to specify the host you want on the command line.  I was hoping 
> to not
> have to have a desktop full of separate shortcuts for every host I 
> want to
> attach to.  Is there no front end to the rdesktop that lets you choose
> hosts, akin to how M$ lets you choose when you use their RDP client?  
> Does
> 1.3 work better in this regard?  I couldn't find documentation online 
> about
> it.
>
> 	I suppose I could write a shell script launcher that prompted for
> this and then invoked rdesktop.
>
> Scully
>
>
>
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