Re: rdesktop in 24-bit color depth

Chris Roberts <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.rdesktop.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Monday 12 Jan 2009, Bajimohanreddy Bandi wrote:
> can any one tell me How to enable rdesktop client  in 24-bit color depth.

If I take your question at its most fundemental, then I should direct you to 
the man pages:

$ man rdesktop

Which state:

       -a <bpp>
              Sets  the  colour  depth  for  the connection (8, 15, 16 or 24).
              More than 8 bpp are only supported when connecting to Windows XP
              (up to 16 bpp) or newer.  Note that the colour depth may also be
              limited by the server configuration. The default  value  is  the
              depth of the root window.

I.e. use "rdesktop -a 24".

If, however, you've already tried that and if you're connecting to Windows 
Terminal Services, then you first enable it on the Windows server, I think in 
Windows Terminal Configurator or something like that.  I think it restricts 
remote desktop clients to 16-bit colour by default.

Chris Roberts.

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