Support Board
Date/Time: Mon, 07 Jul 2025 11:39:39 +0000
Post From: Linux users - Windows Server 2008 in the cloud + remote desktop for SC
| [2018-12-18 13:36:49] |
| T44 - Posts: 363 |
|
A few other tips which might be useful Run your rdp under a separate user / X session / virtual terminal. e.g. useradd rdp use Ctrl+Alt-F[1-7] to switch to another virtual terminal. Login as rdp and startx Now you can use Ctrl+Alt+F[N] to change between your remote session and usual Linux workloads Reduce bandwidth Take advantage of the compression and bit depth options in man rdesktop Stop desktop hijacking your window manager keyboard shortcuts by passing -K Programmatically set your window position maybe add this to your .xinitrc #!/bin/bash rdesktop -x b -z -K -u XXX -pYYYY -g 5120x1600 ec2-ZZZZ.compute.amazonaws.com & sleep 1.9 PID=$(xdotool search rdesktop|tail -n1) xdotool windowmove $PID 0 0 |