Re: [RP] rdesktop

[Nicolas Rachinsky]

* Brian May <address@hidden> [2008-02-20 18:19 +1100]:
> Anybody else here had experience with ratpoison and rdesktop? It seems
> a painful combination:
> 
> * rdesktop grabs the keyboard, and won't let go unless you push the
>   magic key combination ctrl+alt+enter, or move mouse out of the
>   rdesktop window (obviously won't work if the rdesktop window fills
>   the screen).

       -K     Do  not override window manager key bindings.  By default rdesk-
              top attempts to grab all keyboard input when it is in focus.

Solves this problem for me.


> * window is not managed by rdesktop (ie. doesn't show up with normal
>   window list), this makes switching back difficult.

Here rdesktop is in the window list.

> * seems to be easy to get keyboard focus locked on rdesktop by
>   accident, even if it isn't in the foreground. Not quite sure what I
>   did here, but I did it several times.

Never happened to me.

Nicolas
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