Linux Based RDP Client
Hello,
I am needing to setup a Linux based RDP client. What I would like for it to do:
1. Instead of booting in to Unity, Gnome, KDE is to instead boot and launch rdesktop.
2. If the rdesktop window is killed or closed to respawn.
I have found other articles but they are much older and it involves modifying the inittab, I am currently working with Ubuntu for driver support, etc. The current problem that I am running into is that Ubuntu uses upstart an I can no longer pass my arguments to inittab to specify the run level and using the .bashrc to execute rdesktop.
Has anyone else set up an RDP client? I need the linux OS to allow me to execute rdesktop, respawn rdesktop if killed, Auto login to specified account on boot, and to basically the user out of support for anything else except for the rdesktop screen of the remote windows server asking for a username/password to login.
I am needing to setup a Linux based RDP client. What I would like for it to do:
1. Instead of booting in to Unity, Gnome, KDE is to instead boot and launch rdesktop.
2. If the rdesktop window is killed or closed to respawn.
I have found other articles but they are much older and it involves modifying the inittab, I am currently working with Ubuntu for driver support, etc. The current problem that I am running into is that Ubuntu uses upstart an I can no longer pass my arguments to inittab to specify the run level and using the .bashrc to execute rdesktop.
Has anyone else set up an RDP client? I need the linux OS to allow me to execute rdesktop, respawn rdesktop if killed, Auto login to specified account on boot, and to basically the user out of support for anything else except for the rdesktop screen of the remote windows server asking for a username/password to login.
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Hello Lietaer,
Tiny core and Core plus was not a working solution for me, but I did take your advice and went with a different smaller distro were I was able to have the window manger execute the rdesktop service. I went with CrunchBang. Thanks
Tiny core and Core plus was not a working solution for me, but I did take your advice and went with a different smaller distro were I was able to have the window manger execute the rdesktop service. I went with CrunchBang. Thanks
see :
http://www.xfree86.org/4.8.0/startx.1.html