Re: Thanks For 1.7

rdesktop itself cannot read the password from a file, but there's an even 
better solution: transfer the password on standard input:

echo "foobar" | rdesktop -p -

Wrt the clipboard performance, do you cut and paste large amounts of 
data, such as images? I can imagine that this slower than with the MS 
client. To some extent, this might be caused by the platform differences: 
rdesktop must translate between the X11 and Windows environments, which 
uses different clipboard models. But there might be room for improvements.

Rgds,
Peter

On Thu, 12 May 2011, Dave Richards wrote:

> Peter,
>      I just wanted to drop you a line and thank you for pulling all of the patches together and releasing 1.7.0.  We are using it here
> at the City of Largo and it's working great and has solved some problems for us.  We got it installed on our thin clients and so far
> feedback on the new version is positive.  Seamless windows are stable and working well.
> 
> Two areas that are important to us:
> 
> *) If possible it would help us if a command line flag could be added to read the password from a file.  This would allow the password
> not to appear in the process list of the servers.  It would work like this:
> 
> echo "foobar" > /tmp/$USER_rdesktop_password
> rdesktop -pf /tmp/$USER_rdesktop_password .......... &
> rm /tmp/$USER_rdesktop_password
> 
> -pf is just to show PasswordFile.
> 
> *) We have been testing rdesktop with the Creative Suite package running on Windows as a way to save a lot of money vs having
> workstations for our artists.  It's mostly working, but there are some areas where there are performance bottlenecks.  When we use the
> RDP client on Windows with the same tests, it's much faster in these bottleneck areas.  It seems to be in areas where data is being
> put into clipboards or copied.
> 
> Anyway, just wanted to let you know that we appreciate what you have done, and are enjoying the benefits of this software.
> 
> Dave Richards
> City of Largo, Florida.
>   ­­  
>


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