On Friday 03 September 2004 05:19 pm, Yang Yang wrote: > hi all: > I copied over a windows MSTSC.exe and ran the remote desktop, > it gave me a small window for the IP address, then after the > successful connection, it shows me the (full screen ) XP login > interface, weir thing is, it loses mouse / keyboard focus now, so I > can't type in anything, neither can I close the window, the focus is > still on the background (gnome) desktop, so I could press > Ctrl+Alt+F1 and go to console to manually kill the MSTSC.exe window. > > anybody has an idea why it loses input focus? > thanks a lot > > Yang I'm not sure why this happens, but I kind of get the same problem when playing Diablo 2, I use windowmaker as my WM and to get the focus back on the game, I just flip to another windowmaker desktop and back again, you might try the equivalent with Gnome. Also there is the *nix program rdesktop that I use regularly to connect to Windows terminal servers. http://www.rdesktop.org/ -- Anish Mistry
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