On 08/13/2012 04:19 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 08:23 -0400, Worrier Poet wrote: >> On 08/13/2012 04:19 AM, lina wrote: >> <snip>>> >>>> "tsclient has been unmaintained upstream for a long time. >>>> We have kept it because we lacked a client for RDP, but >>>> now that grdc is in the archive, which is maintained and >>>> much better than tsclient, it can be removed." >>> >>> Thank you. I failed to find this bug report. >>> >>> Now I switched to the remina, it's quite good. >>>> >>>> Mentioned as another alternative later in that bug report is remmina. >>>> (grdc is now a dummy package in squeeze that depends on remmina) >>>> >>> >>> Thanks with best regards, >>> >>> >> >> I have used remmina for some time on Wheezy / Xfce but have periodically >> run into client session crashes when using it for admin chores on >> Windows domains. The application also has some minor general interface >> usability issues under Xfce (4.8) when using all but 3 or 4 of the >> available appearance themes, but I suspect those glitches may not occur >> under Gnome. >> >> If you should run into these or other problems with remmina, you might >> consider using rdesktop from the repositories. This is a much simpler >> remote desktop client used from within a terminal emulator and is rock >> solid. It may have issues with upstream maintenance. I remember that >> some time ago it was temporarily removed from the testing repositories. >> Not quite sure of its status in re to that now, but it is back in the >> repositories. >> >> Just thought you should know of the alternative if you have problems >> with remmina. >> >> Good fortune to you! >> the worrier >> >> > Is rdesktop still using RDP5? We had previously gone to xfreerdp as it > supported RDP6 and the performance difference on a WAN/Internet > connection was stunningly better. We had heard Remmina was using > xfreerdp but, when we tried it, it was not only highly unstable but the > performance was clearly that of RDP5. That was many months ago and I do > not know what has changed since - John > >
I'm afraid rdesktop is still stuck at RDP5, and I'm not sure it will ever go beyond that. It might require an extensive re-write to accomplish later RDP version support. It has had a spotty support history for some time -- if I understand correctly. However, rdesktop is so much superior in reliability and performance to remmina that I use it most of the time in preference over the more advanced package. My understanding is that, when advancements in freerdp include the varied features of RDP 6 and 7, remmina will also have those features. However, remmina will have to stop losing its client sessions at inopportune times before I will use it on a regular basis. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5029903e.5050...@comcast.net
