Re: [newbie] Remote desktop connection

[Terry Sheltra]

Actually, I was referring to the krdc application (I had no idea it was 
KDE's until I went and looked .. hehe).  I've pretty much figured it out 
now.  Seems that it intercepts the CTRL-ALT-DEL command just fine, and I 
like it very much.  It even allows me to scale the window so I can see 
the entire desktop without even having to scroll the display around!

Thanks to all who tried to help me!

Terry

K Montgomery wrote:
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 11:21, Terry Sheltra wrote:

Anyone use the mandrake remote desktop connection utility?  If so, how 
does one do things like send a CTRL-ALT-DEL command?  I know that if I 
were using VNC, I could just hit Ctrl-F8 to get a popup menu.


Are you referring to the "rdesktop" program?  ("rfbdrake" uses rdesktop
to connect to Windows machines.)  I hit Ctrl-Alt-Del while using
rdesktop to connect to a WinXP machine and the keys were recognized just
as if I'd been sitting at the machine.

Second question (maybe related to the first one) .. if I have it running 
full-screen, how can I switch it to a window?  I had accidentally closed 
the menu, and was stuck with a full screen view of the remote desktop, 
with no way to close it.


According to "man rdesktop", full screen is toggled using
Ctrl-Alt-Enter.
Of course, if you ever got stuck like that again, you could
"Ctrl-Alt-F1" to login to the console, do a "killall rdesktop" to kill
the rdesktop process, then "Alt-F7" to return to the GUI.  But I
digress...
- Kathy



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