User Commands rdesktop(1)
NAME
rdesktop - Remote Desktop Protocol client
SYNOPSIS
rdesktop [options] server[:port]
DESCRIPTION
rdesktop is a client for Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), used
in a number of Microsoft products including Windows NT Ter-
minal Server, Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP and Windows
2003 Server.
OPTIONS
-u
Username for authentication on the server.
-d
Domain for authentication.
-s
Startup shell for the user - starts a specific applica-
tion instead of Explorer.
-c
The initial working directory for the user. Often used
in combination with -s to set up a fixed login environ-
ment.
-p
The password to authenticate with. Note that this may
have no effect if "Always prompt for password" is
enabled on the server. WARNING: if you specify a pass-
word on the command line it may be visible to other
users when they use tools like ps. Use -p - to make
rdesktop request a password at startup (from standard
input).
-n
Client hostname. Normally rdesktop automatically
obtains the hostname of the client.
-k
Keyboard layout to emulate. This requires a
corresponding keymap file to be installed. The stan-
dard keymaps provided with rdesktop follow the RFC1766
naming scheme: a language code followed by a country
code if necessary - e.g. en-us, en-gb, de, fr, sv,
etc.
The default keyboard map depends on the current locale
(LC* and LANG environment variables). If the current
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locale is unknown, the default keyboard map is en-us (a
US English keyboard).
The keyboard maps are file names, which means that they
are case sensitive. The standard keymaps are all in
lowercase.
The keyboard maps are searched relative to the direc-
tories $HOME/.rdesktop/keymaps, KEYMAPATH (specified
at build time), and $CWD/keymaps, in this order. The
keyboard-map argument can also be an absolute filename.
The special value `none' can be used instead of a key-
board map. In this case, rdesktop will guess the scan-
codes from the X11 event key codes using an internal
mapping method. This method only supports the basic
alphanumeric keys and may not work properly on all
platforms so its use is discouraged.
-g
Desktop geometry (WxH). If geometry is the special word
"workarea", the geometry will be fetched from the
extended window manager hints property NETWORKAREA,
from the root window. The geometry can also be speci-
fied as a percentage of the whole screen, e.g. "-g
80%".
-f Enable fullscreen mode. This overrides the window
manager and causes the rdesktop window to fully cover
the current screen. Fullscreen mode can be toggled at
any time using Ctrl-Alt-Enter.
-b Force the server to send screen updates as bitmaps
rather than using higher-level drawing operations.
-A Enable SeamlessRDP. In this mode, rdesktop creates a
X11 window for each window on the server side. This
mode requires the SeamlessRDP server side component,
which is available from
http:/www.cendio.com/seamlessrdp/. When using this
option, you should specify a startup shell which
launches the desired application through SeamlessRDP.
Example: rdesktop -A -s 'seamlessrdpshell notepad'.
-B Use the BackingStore of the Xserver instead of the
integrated one in rdesktop.
-e Disable encryption. This option is only needed (and
will only work) if you have a French version of NT TSE.
-E Disable encryption from client to server. This sends
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an encrypted login packet, but everything after this is
unencrypted (including interactive logins).
-m Do not send mouse motion events. This saves bandwidth,
although some Windows applications may rely on receiv-
ing mouse motion.
-C Use private colourmap. This will improve colour accu-
racy on an 8-bit display, but rdesktop will appear in
false colour when not focused.
-D Hide window manager decorations, by using MWM hints.
-K Do not override window manager key bindings. By
default rdesktop attempts to grab all keyboard input
when it is in focus.
-S
