Rdesktop

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Simple rdesktop connection

rdesktop can be used for connecting to a Windows machine from Linux remotely. A simple connection can be made using:

rdesktop <IP>

Scale display with rdesktop

To connect to remote machine with scaled display so that with resize display changes properly use:

rdesktop -g 100% <IP>

Full screen mode

To toggle between normal window and full-screen mode while using rdesktop use shortcut combination Ctrl+Alt+Enter. Option '-f' can be specified on command-line to start rdesktop directly in full-screen mode

Experience LAN

By default rdesktop will assume slow connectivity, such as over Internet. However, if connection is made over LAN then the same can be indicated to rdesktop using option '-x l'. -x also takes few other parameters. See rdesktop help or man page for more details. There is also option of setting number of colors to increase/decrease bandwidth usage.

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