Re: Rdesktop freezing on some linux distros

rdesktop on Ubuntu 8.04 is very smooth for me, but on Ubuntu 8.10 they
did something to the input handling in xorg, and sometimes I would
lose control of the mouse and keyboard to rdesktop and not be able to
get it back.  This can happen if I try to use the right-click move
function on the rdesktop window.

I know others are running 8.10 with rdesktop but they have found some
workarounds on the web to fix these kinds of problems.

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:39 AM, Chris Roberts <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sunday 01 Mar 2009, Abbas Khan wrote:
>> I usually interact with RDCs a lot on daily basis. I've been facing the
>> issues with rdesktop from a lot of time. Rdesktop freezes, hangs, becomes
>> unresponsive, acts slow or either stops after 10-15 mins of inactivity.
>> This has been duplicated in Ubuntu 8 and Fedora 10.
>>
>> Tried running latest version 1.60, manually compiled earlier versions,
>> disabled GUI stuff, tried changing networks, happens while rdc'ing local
>> Windows machines; in fact tried whatever i could do but no luck :(
>>
>> Please advise. This is sporadic!
>
> >From what you say, you may well have tried this already, but you could try
> running rdesktop from the command line, just to eliminate rdc from the
> equation.
>
> Then you could try playing with the switches to see if you can improve
> reliability, reducing them to a bare minimum before increasing them again.
> Perhaps try a lower colour depth and without sound.
>
> Both Ubuntu and Fedora are fairly bleeding-edge distros, so I wonder whether
> it could be the latest version of xorg that is causing a problem, perhaps
> specific to your graphics card.  Especially if it's the same client hardware
> on which you're experiencing this problem.  If you're using a proprietary
> graphics driver, you could try the open source equivalent, if only
> temporarily to see if that resolves the problem.
>
> Just a few thoughts, hopefully someone will have experienced this problem for
> themselves and be able to advise.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Chris.
>
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