[ rdesktop-Feature Requests-1896697 ] Font smoothing is preferred when experience option is lan

Feature Requests item #1896697, was opened at 2008-02-18 23:14
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Status: Open
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Font smoothing is preferred when experience option is lan

Initial Comment:
Microsoft genuine remote desktop client enables font smoothing when Experience option is LAN.  However, rdesktop 1.5.0 disables font smoothing even if -x option is l[an].

It seems that 8th bit of g_rdp5_performanceflags is the control flag of font smoothing.  A small patch that enables font smoothing is attached.



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Comment By: derelict (cookja)
Date: 2011-05-05 11:20

Message:
RDP5_DISABLE_NOTHING 0x80 allows the -x l option to work with font
smoothing. Otherwise the experience has to be set by the hex code:

rdesktop -x 0x8F mywinserver   # equals the modem default + font smoothing
rdesktop -x 0x81 mywinserver   # equals the broadband default + font
smoothing
rdesktop -x 0x80 mywinserver   # equals the LAN default + font smoothing

For clarification see:
http://katastrophos.net/andre/blog/2008/03/10/rdesktop-connect-to-windows-vista-with-cleartype-font-smoothing-enabled/

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2009-02-09 00:47

Message:
i see that in your patch you have defined RDP5_DISABLE_NOTHING 0x80 from
0x00 and RDP5_FONT_SMOOTHING as 0x80. Is the RDP5_DISABLE_NOTHING change
intentional?

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2008-03-04 16:35

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Ilya, yes, see this blog post from a TS user:

http://blogs.sepago.de/helge/2007/09/19/cleartype-bandwidth-revisited-testing-32-bit-color-depth/

:)

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Comment By: Ilya Konstantinov (ikonst)
Date: 2008-03-04 15:41

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Curious, does this patch cause text to be transferred as pre-rendered
bitmaps rather than cached 1-bit depth font + text?

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