Brian: Thanks. I'll look on the Core CD's and try your script. Scully -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brian D. McGrew Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 9:52 AM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: Rdesktop (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 > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
